Larger Alexandrine Empire that falls apart

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Let's say Alexander lives a few campaigns more, but instead of the cliched Macedonian "Roman-like" Empire, the Diadochi phase occurs maybe a decade after OTL. If Alexander had brought at laest Greek Italy and North Africa, or maybe more of northern India into the Empire before he dies, how does the successorship wars go?
 
I'm going to be creative and suggest an Egyptian/Cyrenian state that also includes Malta, Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes, as well as the entire Arabian coastline: basically a Ptolemy wank with significant footholds in the Mediterranean to be a naval power.

There'd be a state based around the Aegean, centred around Pella, or maybe Byzantium or Athens. It'd encompass Lydia, Macedonia, and Attica, but not the Peloponnese, Epirus, or the Anatolian plateau.

A Seleucid type state controlling the heart of the Empire, from Galatia to Persia. Let's have this state's sphere of influence stop in Persia, so it's not unduly troubled by attacks from steppe nomads, and can concentrate on being a Mesopotamian/Syrian based power, with a capital at Babylon or *Antioch.

An Indian state that controls the rest of Alexandrine Asia, with the exception of Afghanistan, which becomes "Greek city states", and essentially ungovernable. This Indian state eventually becomes more and more Indianised, but retains several essential Graeco-Macedonian elements.

And an Epiro-Italian state comprising these areas plus the Peloponese. United under one king, I suspect this state could provide a formidable stumbling block to the ambitions of Rome and Carthage. It might start to make the Adriatic as rich an economic powerhouse as the Aegean was.

Just some ideas.
 
BG- you just had to work Byzantium in didn't you lol.

Seriously though; I'd expect to see the centre of the Empire move from Macedon to Persia. Alexander had already styled himself an Asiatic monarch, so he may well have shifted his power base the; probably settling his veterans there.

If Alexander dies, say 10 years after OTL, then I'd expect to see a shift in competition from Syria/Palestine and Greece to Mesopotamia and eastern Anatolia.
 
I'm still placing my bet on the Ptolemaioi- If only because it is infinitely more likely that they will take control of an area they can actually manage-and the Indo-Hellenes. If Alexandros crushes one or two more polities in India, that country is good to go for a while.

Whoever it is (Seleukos or otherwise) that get's greedy and tries to swallow up half of Alexander's Empire is going to be in for a slightly less impossible job now that there's been ten years of Alexandrian infrastructure in place.

I would wholeheartedly support a timeline with a later Diadochi Period. I've never considered it myself.

:D
 

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S.M Stirling "Conquistador" Novel was based on the premise that its empire did live on. In that one the steep nomads from Siberia were inturn pushed east into China instead of Europe and Asia.

2000 years later Europe and Middle East are a mix of Post Carthage successor states.
 

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I'm going to be creative and suggest an Egyptian/Cyrenian state that also includes Malta, Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes, as well as the entire Arabian coastline: basically a Ptolemy wank with significant footholds in the Mediterranean to be a naval power.
Very plausible, they were in control of much of the above OTL for a while
There'd be a state based around the Aegean, centred around Pella, or maybe Byzantium or Athens. It'd encompass Lydia, Macedonia, and Attica, but not the Peloponnese, Epirus, or the Anatolian plateau.
So an Antignoid analogue?
And an Epiro-Italian state comprising these areas plus the Peloponese. United under one king, I suspect this state could provide a formidable stumbling block to the ambitions of Rome and Carthage. It might start to make the Adriatic as rich an economic powerhouse as the Aegean was.
These areas were never close to been unified OTL, wouldn't it make more sense for something like the Achaean/Aetolian league in the Peloponese (and for Attica to revolt against Macedon rule later) and another state of Epirus and Magnia Grecia (maybe a Phyrrus analogue successeds in bringing those two areas together)?

with the exception of Afghanistan, which becomes "Greek city states", and essentially ungovernable.
Why not something like Bactria in the southern parts?
 
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