PPT-Paraitakene

Author : sherrill-nordquist | Published Date : 2017-06-12

317 BC Strategic Context As Alexander the Great lays dying in 323 BC he is asked who should inherit his vast empire to which he reportedly answers the strongest

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317 BC Strategic Context As Alexander the Great lays dying in 323 BC he is asked who should inherit his vast empire to which he reportedly answers the strongest Alexanders chief of staff Perdiccas assumes the role of interim ruler as he attempts to hold the Macedonian Empire together until Alexanders young son is old enough to rule This arrangement quickly falls apart when many of Alexanders former generals now satraps the Diadochi rebel including Craterus Antipater Ptolemy and Antigonus Perdiccas orders Eumenes chancellor and also one of Alexanders former generals to guard Anatolia while he attacks Ptolemy in Egypt Eumenes defeats and kills Craterus at the Battle of Hellespont in 321 BC but Perdiccas is assassinated by Peithon Seleucus and Antipater The Diadochi declare Eumenes an outlaw and send Antigonus to destroy him and the regimes remaining power base Eumenes retreats to Mesopotamia hoping to draw on the resources and support of satraps in the east still loyal to the regime.

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