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Why Did Alexander the Great's Generals Kill His Heirs? - The Fall of the Argead Dynasty | Sleepy Facts About History
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When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BCE, he left behind an empire stretching from Greece to the Indus Valley but no adult heir to rule it. The immediate result was not an orderly partition of territory, but a prolonged political crisis in which his generals used the very institution of the Macedonian monarchy to dismantle the empire they had sworn to preserve. This episode examines the settlement at Babylon, the distribution of provincial commands, and the decades of warfare…
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