The Empire of Alexander and Its Partition, 323 BC
The empire of Alexander the Great at his death in 323 BC and its division among his generals — the Partition of Babylon — with the surrounding peoples of the ancient Near East.
When Alexander the Great died at Babylon in June 323 BC, aged just 32, he left the largest empire the ancient world had yet seen — stretching from Greece and Egypt to the Indus — and no adult heir. At a council in Babylon his leading generals, the Diadochi, carved the realm into satrapies among themselves, an arrangement that soon collapsed into decades of war between rival successor kingdoms. This modern, English-labelled map shows the empire's full extent together with the peoples ringing it, from the Sarmatians and Massagetae of the steppe to the kingdoms of the Iranian plateau.
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