The fall of the Hellenic States.

In 204 BC Antiochus IV Ephiphanes became king of Egypt as a child. In this also Phillip V saw a weakness and wanted to invade parts of the Ptolemaic Empire. Attalos I was opposed to it and called the Romans for help. As a result started the II Macedonian war from 200-197 BC and the Romans defeated the Macedonians and freed whole Greece from their ruler ship.

In this Antiochus saw again a weakness of Macedonia and wanted to invade in northern Greece, but got already defeated in 191 BC near the Thermophylae by the Romans and pulled back to Minor Asia. The Aetolian made peace in 189 BC with the Romans and before that they also established the Aetolian Alliance, Rhodes, Pergamon and even Macedonia took the Roman side. So there was no other choice for Antiochus and 188 BC he made concessions for a peace contract. He had to pay a high contribution and payment to the Romans.

In 171 BC because of alleged pretension to power of Macedonia came up the III Macedonian war with the Romans, in which they got defeated totally and the Empire got divided into four shared parts. In the war between the Archaic Alliance and Sparta in 146 BC, the Romans took the side of Sparta, destroyed Corinth, the most important member, and put the city rulers of Macedonian in charge of nearly whole Greece.

The Romans invaded after some important victories also Asia as the province Syria and Egypt. With this the history of the Greek and Hellenic City-States found an end, but the civilization still continued their life’s, but know under the ruler-ship of the Romans.