And so you see this path of Alexander and his forces. We then go into 333 BCE. Outside of the forward movement of Alexander and his troops and their ability to take over all of Asia Minor, modern day Turkey, in only a matter of a little more than a year, what also happens in 333 BCE, and some of you might have been wondering, well, whatever happens to Sparta? Philip of Macedon never took over Sparta. Do they stay independent forever? And the simple answer is no. In 333 BCE, Antipater defeats the Spartans at the Battle of Megalopolis and forces them into what we now call the League of Corinth.