The conquests of Alexander the Great, who …
Years: 333BCE - 190BCE
The conquests of Alexander the Great, who at the time of his death in 323 has conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks, his empire replacing that of the defeated Persians, initiate the Hellenistic Age, when many people who are not Greek themselves adopt Greek philosophy and styles, Greek urban life, and aspects of the Greek religion.
The Wars of the Diadochi, the rival successors of Alexander, follow his death.
People
Groups
- Iranian peoples
- Persian people
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Egypt (Ancient), Late Period of
- Greece, Hellenistic
- Egypt, Alexandrine
- Lysimachus, Kingdom of
- Greeks, Hellenistic
- Seleucus, Kingdom of
- Macedon, Antigonid Kingdom of
- Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom of
- Seleucid Kingdom
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Seleucid Empire
