Alexander's Disintegrating Empire
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- Ptolemy
- General that took power in Egypt
- Roxana
- Alexander's wife
- Seleucus
- Military officer that took control of region stretching from Syria to Bactria
- Alexander IV
- Alexander's son and heir
- Antigonus
- General who took power of Alexander's eastern army, his treasury in West Asia, and a navy in the Aegean Sea. He set out to reunite the empire and warred against the other generals. He failed and was killed.
- Lysimachus
- General that took command of Thrace and Asia Minor
- Phillip III
- Man who ruled the empire alongside Alexander IV
- Cassander
- Son of Antipater, he became the general that ruled Macedonia and Greece.
- Demetrius
- Son of Antigonus, he inherited the Greek navy and a few island cities.
- Perdiccas
- General who supposedly was Alexander's chosen successor. He was assassinated by his troops after crossing the Nile to take on Ptolemy.
- King
- Title for a monarch started by Alexander and carried by his generals
- Antipater
- Regent to both Phillip III and Alexander IV
- Olympias
- Alexander's mother
- Memphis
- City where Ptolemy is believed to have buried Alexander