Hellenistic - refers to the "international" period of Greek history, when much of the Mediterranean and southwestern Asia was under Greek rule.("how the Macedonians ruled"-Mr.Schick)
After the defeat of Xerxes in 480 BC, Sparta stopped the fighting. Athens formed an alliance with the city-states and then decided to convince the members to contribute money for the construction of triremes which are navy ships. A different strategy should have been used. They were becoming hubris and thought they could easily take on Sparta. In 445 BC, after the city-state of Anatolia was free from Persian rule, Athens collected money. With this, Athens made these other cities practice democracy, even though most of them were oligarchies. All the other cities were upset with Athens demand and went to Sparta to complain. In the course of the war (431-404 BC), Athens took Sparta out by sea, knowing that they couldn't be defeated on land. This was a bad decision and Athens fell and was defeated. In 359 BC, Phillip II of Macedonia becomes King of the Greeks. A main reason they should not have taken on Sparta was that they were still recovering from a previous war putting them at a disadvantage.
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