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advised to retreat to the Hellenic was poisoning that was typical of
empire that he had acquired. Macedonian politics during the time.
Although the riches of the Persian Whatever the culprit, the Hellenic
empire that he acquired had helped empire was shattered after the death
with the growth of the economy of Alexander. The empire split
back home, Macedonian war efforts into four different parts that were
were stretched, and there were not led by the generals of Alexander's
enough men to fuel any further army. Egypt was ruled by Ptolemy,
conquests. Alexander would take Mesopotamia by Seleucus, Anatolia,
care of his new empire for only a which is the southern coasts of
short time after his untimely death. Turkey by the Attalid dynasty, and
Many think that his death was Antigonus ruling Macedon. The
partially because the loss of a close dividing of the empire was facilitated
friend, while others thought that it by the fighting over territory by the