By 300 BCE, three generals emerged as the victors, establishing powerful dynasties that would rule and battle over the Hellenistic world. However, soon after Alexander’s untimely death in 323, this vast realm began to fall apart as his generals and successors - the diadochi - fought each other for supremacy.
Ten years later, Alexander the Great was the ruler of a vast Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean shores to the Indus River. In 334 BCE, Alexander, king of Macedon, and his army composed of Macedonian and Greek troops, invaded the Persian Empire. Alexander the Great’s Successors and the Dawn of the Hellenistic World The Hellenistic world in 301 BC, via Wikimedia Commons