### q1 timeline of Greek hegemonies > The Greek city states continues to find a bewilderingly complex series of wars among each other for most of the next century, with Spartan hegemony going back and forth, giving way to Theban, with Athens’, Sparta’s, Corinth’s and Thebes’ fortunes waxing and waning in shifting alliances, eventually seeing the brief rise of Thessaly… until Macedon burst on the scene and essentially swept up almost the whole of Greece (and much beyond). From then on, and with the shift of learning and power to other Hellenistic centres like Alexandria, the major old Greek city states all went into decline. - [[on the longevity of Athens instead of Sparta#q1 timeline of Greek hegemonies|View in Vault]]