 Complete the following phrase:  The past century had seen the Greek world dominated by the three primary successor kingdoms of Alexander the Greats empire: Ptolemaic Egypt, Macedonia and the Seleucid Empire. In 202, internal problems led to a weakening of Egypts position, thereby disrupting the power balance among the successor states. Macedonia and the Seleucid Empire agreed to an alliance to conquer and divide Egypt. Fearing this increasingly unstable situation, several small Greek kingdoms sent delegations to Rome to seek an alliance. The delegation succeeded, even though prior Greek attempts to involve Rome in Greek affairs had been met with Roman apathy. Our primary source about these events, the surviving works of Polybius, do not state Romes reason for getting involved. Rome gave Philip an ultimatum to cease his campaigns against Romes new Greek allies. Doubting Romes strength a reasonable doubt, given Romes performance in the First Macedonian War Philip ignored the request, and Rome sent an army of Romans and Greek allies, beginning the 