[Favorite Empire in Antiquity]

[Conrad_Jalowski]

It is possible to argue that Alexander III the Great did not create an empire but merely overthrew the preceding empire of the Achaemenids. In this viewpoint, Alexander III did not establish his own empire but merely subjugated the Achaemenid Persian Empire. For example, the empire of Alexander sundered immediately after his death in Babylon in 323 BCE by the incessant wars waged by the Diadochoi [Also known as the Epigonoi; the empire split apart into the four major dynasties of the Antigonids, Attalids, Ptolemies and Seleucids] and he failed to establish a dynasty. As for the composition of the recently acquired empire, Alexander III relied on the Achaemenid satrapial system and did not alter the existing political structure of the subjugated Persian Empire.