The Split of Alexander the Great's Empire

Alexander the Great was a man who believed in the impossible and sought to make the impossible possible. An example is his conquest into India, when the people at the time thought was impossible or very unlikely. His death in 323 B.C.E. left his oversized empire without a leader, causing a conflict on leadership. The only compromise that Alexander’s generals could come up with without an internal war in the empire was to split off into separate smaller empires. This compromise didn’t last for long because the military leaders did not get what they had bargained for in their new empires and caused constant war between the surrounding areas and empires. There was constant war between the empires and the only thing that the original generals of Alexander the Great accomplished was the spread of Hellenism throughout Persia, Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean.