The empire forged by Alexander the Great, who in a decade (336-323 BC) led the Macedonian and allied Greek army across the Hellespont, shattered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and carried Macedonian rule from Greece and Egypt to Bactria and the Indus — the largest empire the ancient world had yet seen.
At Alexander's death in Babylon in 323 BC the empire had no clear heir; his generals partitioned it at Babylon and fought the Wars of the Diadochi, and by the Battle of Ipsus (301 BC) it had fragmented into the Antigonid, Seleucid and Ptolemaic kingdoms.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Macedonian Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 336 BC · 334 BC · 329 BC.
A concise scholarly synthesis of Alexander's conquests and the empire he built, by the leading historian of the Achaemenid world he overran.
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