What Happened to Alaxander's Kingdom after he Died

What Happened to Alaxander’s Kingdom after he Died

What happened to Alaxander’s kingdom after he died fights broke out over who was to rule the empire. The areas that he conquered in India returned to their original rulers. Three of Alexander’s generals divided the rest of the empires among themselves. Antigonus became king of Macedonia. Ptolemy established the dynasty of the Ptolemies in Egypt. Seleucus formed the Seleucid Empire in Persia. Athens and Sparta became independent city-states again. Most other Greek city-states banded together into one of to leauges, but neither league had much power or importance. The cities that had been part of Alexander’s empire now existed manly for trade grew along with it. City officials made their laws language, calendar and coins Greek. The Greek city-states were never the same again. They kept their political independence but they couldn’t gain back the power of the past. In time economic conditions grew worse. Great factories had been built in the new Hellenistic cities. Greek manufactures now found they couldn’t compete with these factories. Because of that more young Greek emigrated. Population in the Greek city-states fell. There was not enough people to work the land, and many farms once again became wilderness. Then By 146 B.C. most of the Greek city-states were under Roman control