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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