Alexander the Great

Late July, 356 BC–June 10, 323 BC) was King of Macedon; he united the warring and divided city states of Greece and conquered Persia, Egypt and a number of other kingdoms, all the way to the borders of India. The conquests, their attendant spread of Greek culture, and the mixing of Greek culture with more eastern cultures ushered in the age of Hellenistic Greece across several continents.

Following Alexander's death, known as the beginning of the Hellenistic period, there was a struggle for the succession, known as the wars of the Diadochi

The word Diadochi means "successors" in Greek. Specifically, the Diadochi were the rival successors to Alexander the Great, and the Wars of the Diadochi followed Alexander's death. This was the beginning of the so-called Hellenistic period of Greek history.

Death of Alexander, 323 B.C. When Alexander the Great died (June 10, 323 B. C.), he left behind a huge empire which was composed of many essentially independent territories. Alexander's empire stretched from his homeland of Macedon itself, along with the Greek city-states that his father had subdued, to Bactria and some parts of India in the east, including Anatolia, the Levant, Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia.

Alexander the Great dies. His generals—Antigonus I Monophthalmus, Antipater, Seleucus I Nicator, Ptolemy, Eumenes and Lysimachus—fight over control of the vast Macedonian Empire he leaves behind. Start of the Ptolemaic Empire and the Seleucid Empire.

This is where four Generals end up shortly after with the empire that are the four horns in the Book of Daniel. But later two Generals end up with the empire, Ptolemy and Seleucus I,


 

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