Greece and Macedonia if Alexander dies early

Say Cleitus the Black is unable to intervene and Alexander the great is killed during the Battle of the Granicus

What would be the impact on Greece and Macedonia

would the Argead dynasty survive as rulers of Macedonia
 
Two millennia later, Greece and Macedonia are fighting over the heritage of the Greeks instead of the heritage of the Macedonians

:p
 
I think in this situation that Greece would remain divided as petty city states, eventually falling under Persian influence. Rome will rise as per OTL but the border region will be in Greece/Balkans rather than the Euphrates. Christianity could be butterfied away entirely.
 
Alexander was.a.once in an epoch whirlwind conqueror. I believe that if the Macedonians didn't conquer Asia then the Persions, over time, would invade and successfully conquer Greece. Nature abhors a vacuum, and a divided Greece is ripe for the taking
 
The Persians themselves were in a bit of a rut and needed reform. Meanwhile Anatolia was a province far from the Persian Core. It says a lot that Darius was pretty willing to hand over Anatolia to Alexander.

Meanwhile Macedon was a country with a decent geographic/agricultural base (Areas we refer to as Thrace and Macedonia) and a state apparatus that was reformed along Persian lines. It was also a military power with a technological and organizational edge.

If Macedon doesn't collapse into Civil War, I don't see why anything less than the conquest of western Anatolia by Macedon is to be expected.
Something like the lands of Cassander and Lysemachus during the Diadochi period. Macedon would control Macedonia, Thrace, and Anatolia de jure and de facto whereas Southern Greece would likely remain Macedonian De Jure but not De Facto just as with Cassander .

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The Persians themselves were in a bit of a rut and needed reform. Meanwhile Anatolia was a province far from the Persian Core. It says a lot that Darius was pretty willing to hand over Anatolia to Alexander.

Meanwhile Macedon was a country with a decent geographic/agricultural base (Areas we refer to as Thrace and Macedonia) and a state apparatus that was reformed along Persian lines. It was also a military power with a technological and organizational edge.

If Macedon doesn't collapse into Civil War, I don't see why anything less than the conquest of western Anatolia by Macedon is to be expected.
Something like the lands of Cassander and Lysemachus during the Diadochi period. Macedon would control Macedonia, Thrace, and Anatolia de jure and de facto whereas Southern Greece would likely remain Macedonian De Jure but not De Facto just as with Cassander .

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Darius was willing to left to Alexander only lands who Alexander had already conquered (and likely not everything Alexander had already taken) plus gold and his daughter (already captured by Alexander together with her mother, grandmother and younger sister)
 
Darius was willing to left to Alexander only lands who Alexander had already conquered (and likely not everything Alexander had already taken) plus gold and his daughter (already captured by Alexander together with her mother, grandmother and younger sister)

Alexander had made it to what is today the northern portion of Iskenderum. Darius had offered lands east of the Euphrates. I assume he meant this conservatively, as in Anatolia west of the Euphrates, rather than everything west of the Euphrates.

So Red is what he had at that point, whereas Blue is what he'd get.

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Plus, ignoring Alexander, Macedon was already sticking its nose in Persia's business under Philip II. I think it will be very difficult for the Persians to hold on to Lydia.
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In any case, with the near east Greeks liberated from Persia and a peace established there, the primary targets of Macedon would be the Illyrians and Carthaginians.
 
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