Why did Alexander's empire not last after his death?

Answer 1

Alexander the great; his empire did everything but fail his empire is the largest empire in such short time in the world. He only had 32 years before he died and he did many extraordinary things in that time except it was after he died that the empire broke into pieces and fell apart.

Answer 2

Alexander died from malaria, when he died he said that his empire would go to the strongest military leader. However before he dies he never specified who that was. After Alexander died three of the strongest military leaders got together and decided to split the empire between them. The empire slowly separated and completely collapsed within a matter of years.

Answer 3

It collapsed after Alexander the Great died and was split. Greek influence remained, however, for almost a thousand years and Greek was the lingua franca of the lands that were Alexander's empire.

Answer 4

The empire did not fall. When Alexander died prematurely, there was no clear heir, and his generals divided the empire amongst them, establishing their own kingdoms in opposition to each other. This settled down to Egypt, Syria, Macedonia and Pergamon.

Answer 5

Alexander had no clear heir or successor. He had a handicapped brother and an unborn child to his Persian wife Roxane. It was arranged that when the child was born, the brother and child would jointly take on the rulership. However it didn't happen. Alexander's generals had been given provinces to govern, and these now took control and entered into war against each other. After the first war, the settlement was:

Antipater - European Greece - and regent of the Empire, with under his control king Arrhideus and the boy-king Alexander IV in Macedon.

Antigonus - Phrygia, Lycia, and Pamphylia and Lycaonia.

Ptolemy - Egypt

Lysimachus - Thrace

Seleucus - Babylonia

Peithon - Media

Antigenes - Susiana

After several more wars of succession and the murders of the two kings, the succession settled to:

Cassander - European Greece

Ptolemy - Egypt

Antigonis - Asia Minor

Seleucis - Syria and Mesopotamia.

The governors took the title of kings, and ruled their separate kingdoms (known as the Hellenistic kingdoms) and continued sporadically fighting each other. These kingdoms were progressively absorbed into the Roman Empire in the 2nd and 1st Centuries BCE.

Answer 6

Alexander the Great was the victim of a disease that caused his premature death. There was no clear procedure to replace Alexander and the vast amount of territories he conquered were taken over by rival generals in his army. With no structure these territories eventually became parts of the jurisdiction of badly trained administrators and generals. The Empire that Alexander quickly created, quickly became part of no structured government.

Answer 7

The rulers did not care about Rome or it's people. Another thing is that there was not enough farmland so food supply was scarce.

Answer 8

Every civlization eventually collapses. it is apart of the evolution of society.