Cornelius Vanderbilt watching his incomprehensibly vast fortune being lost within a couple generations
Daeths on
Hot take: Alexander never had an empire. If you build an empire and it immediately collapses on your death then It was never one to begin with. Consolidation is as important as conquest IMO.
Edit: autocorrect foiled me again
Catalytic_Crazy_ on
Diadochi has a nice ring to it.
TheRealGouki on
ngl he probably didn’t care.
TheHistoryMaster2520 on
Not entirely, the generals ruled on behalf of Alexander’s heirs for many years after his death, and didn’t declare themselves as kings until 306 BC. Even then, Antigonus and Seleucus of the diadochi did come tantalizingly close to re-establishing Alexander’s empire
DarthWeber on
Ptolemy should have rules after.
NXDIAZ1 on
Ghengis Khan watching his empire, the largest contiguous land empire in human history, be destroyed by constant infighting:
spinosaurs70 on
Alexander the Great Hellenized a whole region of the world’s elites until the Islamic invasion, so hundreds of years of influence.
bookhead714 on
“My throne goes to the strongest.”
“But my lord, your empire will surely collapse!”
“Lol,” said Alexander. “Lmao.”
Iced_Yehudi on
Well, luckily he didn’t live to see it
bdrwr on
Lmao it ain’t like he did a *single* thing in the direction of stability… “To the strongest” mf what did he *think* they would do with that?
Third_Rate_Duelist_ on
He dared too much, always leading the charge
BarristanTheB0ld on
Should’ve consolidated instead of steamrolling all of Asia
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Cornelius Vanderbilt watching his incomprehensibly vast fortune being lost within a couple generations
Hot take: Alexander never had an empire. If you build an empire and it immediately collapses on your death then It was never one to begin with. Consolidation is as important as conquest IMO.
Edit: autocorrect foiled me again
Diadochi has a nice ring to it.
ngl he probably didn’t care.
Not entirely, the generals ruled on behalf of Alexander’s heirs for many years after his death, and didn’t declare themselves as kings until 306 BC. Even then, Antigonus and Seleucus of the diadochi did come tantalizingly close to re-establishing Alexander’s empire
Ptolemy should have rules after.
Ghengis Khan watching his empire, the largest contiguous land empire in human history, be destroyed by constant infighting:
Alexander the Great Hellenized a whole region of the world’s elites until the Islamic invasion, so hundreds of years of influence.
“My throne goes to the strongest.”
“But my lord, your empire will surely collapse!”
“Lol,” said Alexander. “Lmao.”
Well, luckily he didn’t live to see it
Lmao it ain’t like he did a *single* thing in the direction of stability… “To the strongest” mf what did he *think* they would do with that?
He dared too much, always leading the charge
Should’ve consolidated instead of steamrolling all of Asia