His generals divided the empire amongst themselves, forming several separate kingdoms at odds with each other over boundaries.
He left two heirs - his juvenile son and his crippled brother. However his generals held power through their control of the army which kept the empire under control. These generals contested for power, and split the empire into kingdoms of their won.
His heirs were his infant son and brain-damaged brother, neither able to exercise control of the vast empire. His generals seized parts of it and fought for supremacy, forming their own kingdoms.
Alexander's the Great heir was his son Alexander IV who was born after his death. The day of his death though he left his empire [τω κρατίστω - the strongest] therefore his marshals battled among themselves to take the power of the regions they were appointed to govern. After 60 years of conflict finally the empire was split in three major empires. They were the Antigonid Empire in Greece, the Seleucid Empire in Mesopotamia and Persia, the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, Palestine and Cyrenaica [current Libya].
1. It establishment. 2. Development of its system of governance. 3. Failure of its expansion plans to the east into India and to the west in Europe. 4. The death of Alexander without a clear heir. 5. Its disintegration into the Hellenistic Kingdoms.
Cleopatra VII was the last pharaoh of Egypt, killing herself in 30BC leaving no heir to the throne. The romans then took over Egypt and the great egyptian civilisation had ended.
Because the previous King, Alexander I died in a riding accident, broke his neck. A new King hadn't been found yet. Alexander I had died without an heir.
His father Philip was king of Macedonia. His eldest son was not physically competent due to poisoning, so the younger Alexander became heir and took over after Philip was assassinated. It is not clear whether Alexander was involved in the assassination.
Different factions fight to take over themselves.
His father had a dream to unite the city-states. Shortly after he died so Alexander was his heir. Alexander took his father's dream and tried to unite the Greeks, the Persians, and the Macedonians. He failed
He had not nominated an heir by the time of his premature death (32) and hs generals carved up his empire amongst them.
heir --- It is not an Heir. An Heir is what you call the people who receive something from a will or a trust. A person who dies leave a will is a Testator.
Queen Beatrix of Netherlands' Heir is her son Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
The problem is that the line of succession is left in doubt and that leaves the throne open to take over by other parties. Often the family that is left is in danger from the people who want the throne.
Philip II ruined his relationship with his son, Alexander the Great, by rejecting Alexander's mother who was a Greek from Epirus and marrying another woman who was a Greek from Macedonia. Alexander, and especially his mother, felt that Alexander would no longer be in line to inherit the throne should Philip II die with an heir that was a full Macedonian Greek. There have been speculations that Alexander had killed his father but in light of this reason, it has been proposed that it was Alexander's mother that may have arraigned to assassinate Philip, not Alexander.
Because her father died without leaving a male heir.
He left no clear heir and his generals split it up amongst themselves, creating what we now call the Hellenistic Kingdoms, which fought amongst each other.
Alex was the heir to her parents' great fortune when they died.
Alexander's the Great heir was his son Alexander IV who was born after his death. The day of his death though he left his empire [τω κρατίστω - the strongest] therefore his marshals battled among themselves to take the power of the regions they were appointed to govern. After 60 years of conflict finally the empire was split in three major empires. They were the Antigonid Empire in Greece, the Seleucid Empire in Mesopotamia and Persia, the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, Palestine and Cyrenaica [current Libya].
His heirs were his infant son and brain-damaged brother, neither able to exercise control of the vast empire. His generals seized parts of it and fought for supremacy, forming their own kingdoms.