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In 323 BCE, Alexander the fantastic was on top of the globe. Never a guy to take a seat on his hands or slumber after his laurels, Alexander commenced planning his future promotions, which might have included makes an attempt to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other ideas for the young Macedonian king. One night time, while feasting along with his admiral Nearchus, he drank too much and took to bed with a fever. At first, it appeared like the fever was only a outcome of his surplus, and there was not much matter for his health, but when a week possessed elapsed and there was still no signal of his getting better, his friends and generals commenced to grow worried. The fever grew, eating him to the point that he could barely speak. After two weeks, on June 11, 323 BC, Alexander the fantastic, King of Macedon, Hegemon of the Group of Corinth, King of Kings, perished. On his deathbed, some historians claim that when he was pressed to name a successor, Alexander muttered that his empire is going "to the best". Other sources claim that he transferred his signet diamond ring to his standard Perdiccas, therefore naming him successor, but whatever his options were or may have been, they were disregarded. Alexander's generals, these with the commitment of their own corps at their backs, would tear one another apart in a vicious inside have difficulties that lasted almost half a century before four factions surfaced victorious: Macedonia, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Slight, and the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. During the course of these wars, Alexander's only heir, the posthumously born Alexander IV, was murdered, extinguishing his bloodline permanently.
