What happend after Alexander

Summary
Demetrios was the inheritor of Alexander’s Empire after the Emperor’s death. However, when news of Alexander’s death touched the ears of conquered regions, revolts exploded. All the family of Alexander; the nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, and cousins all tried to capture there own piece of the kingdom. Like a huge soap opera marriages quickly took place, alongside divorces, murder, and adultery. On a world view, newly freed kingdoms organized against Demetrios who was now growing an ever more powerful army and nation. His political influence steadily grew, but as his army grew, so did the armies of his rivals. However, sickness would take Demetrios’ life; one of the many Ptolemy’s of the time would take his place. Ptomly the second, was not as ambitious as Alexander. He only extended his political and territorial reach to aggravate or embarrass his rivals. His life would also be cut short by illness and Alexander the fourth would take his place. Alexander the fourth, like his grandfather, was incredibly ambitious and an intelligent man. His succession as king did not bring civil war or the collapse of the government, on the contrary to earlier successions. Alexander drove away invaders from the west, as his siblings and extended family fought for dominance over kingdoms. Their cockiness and self-centeredness only brought the collapse of their kingdoms.

Quotation
“In the mean time they had, by their self-centeredness and obduracy, effectively wrecked their own empire” (Grainger 193).

Reaction
Alexander’s death only brought a snowball effect of revolts and a lot of drama. Each year a new war would break out between recently conquered nations and kingdoms. Everyone tried to take what they could from what was left of the empire, like the homeless in the play “A Christmas Carole.” Every member of a family played its part in the wars, and countless murders after the death of a single man. But for all of their greediness they got nothing in return but mass chaos and civil war. It was as if the entire world wanted to conquer the entire world, what was left was the death of many and the gain of nothing.