Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . death. Ion, at the age of thirty-three (b, c. 323). Thus cut off in the vigor of earlymanhood, he left no inheritor either ofhis power or of his projects. Whenasked on his death-bed to whom heleft the empire, he said, To thestrongest. But there was none strongenough. Thus the vast dominion brokeinto fragments soon after his death. Com OF Alexander. ^^^ j^j^ ^^^-^^^ SChemeS of policy and conquest were buried in his grave. 98. Though the great empi
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . death. Ion, at the age of thirty-three (b, c. 323). Thus cut off in the vigor of earlymanhood, he left no inheritor either ofhis power or of his projects. Whenasked on his death-bed to whom heleft the empire, he said, To thestrongest. But there was none strongenough. Thus the vast dominion brokeinto fragments soon after his death. Com OF Alexander. ^^^ j^j^ ^^^-^^^ SChemeS of policy and conquest were buried in his grave. 98. Though the great empire of Alexander broke inpieces almost at once, yet the effects of his Result of hiscareer have remained to all time. One great conquests,result was the Hellenizing of the conquered lands, that iSftheir assimilation to Greek ideas and Greek Greek language became the tongue of all govern-ment and literature throughout many countries where thepeople were not Greek by birth. It was thus at the verymoment that Greece began to lose her political freedomthat she made, as it were, an intellectual conquest of alarge part of the lOS HISTORY OF GREECE. 3. ALEXANDERS SUCCESSORS, 99. The great empire of Alexander, as has been said,Division of ^^ to pieces after his death, and the generalsthe empire. ^j^q }^^^ fought under him contended fiercelyduring twentyt years for the fragments. In the year 301 adecisive action took place at Ipsus in Phrygia, the result ofwhich gave Syria and the East to Seleucus, Egypt to Etol-emy, Thrace to Lysimachus, and Macedonia to the various kingdoms founded by these men, two are ofspecial interest, — the kingdom of the Ptolemies in Egyptand the kingdom of the Seleucid^ in the East. 100. Egypt fell to the lot of Ptolemy, one of Alexanders generals, known as Ptolemy Soter. He wasan energetic monarch, and during a long reign(323-283 ) ruled Egypt, on the whole, well. TheGreeks and the Macedonians whom he carried with hi
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