Athens lost to the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta, was strippedof its empire and became a second rate power. Sparta assumedleadership of the Greek cities until replaced by Thebes. The heavylosses from the continual wars between the Greek city-states soweakened them that they became dominated by the rising power ofMacedonia.

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