Alexander dies and wars of successors (diodachi) begin

Category
War
Place
Middle East
Date
-323
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
Alexander's death was followed by fifty years of warring among three of his generals in which "the empire was divided between the Antigonid dynasty in Macedonia and Greece, the Seleucids in Mesopotamia and Persia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt." [Furtado: 1001 Days] "The Battle of Ipsus (Ancient Greek: ????) was fought between some of the Diadochi (the successors of Alexander the Great) in 301 BC near the village of that name in Phrygia. Antigonus I Monophthalmus and his son Demetrius I of Macedon were pitted against the coalition of three other companions of Alexander: Cassander, ruler of Macedon; Lysimachus, ruler of Thrace; and Seleucus I Nicator, ruler of Babylonia and Persia." [Wikipedia] Antigonus fails to succeed Alexander the Great at the Battle of Ipsus: "Ipsus was the high point of the struggle among Alexander the Great’s successors to create an international Hellenistic empire, which Antigonus failed to do." [Davis: 100 Decisive Battles, p. 35]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
Alexander the Great's Conquests
-334
-323
Wars