Wars of the Diadochi

With the death of Alexander, the Great falling upon us, the lands he ruled were in question as to who was going to acquire what lands were in question, without ruler the land would fall in shock and come to a demise. After battles occurring for over 40 years and battles happening of when before I had come into the world, the battles had finally come to an end with the empire splitting into 4 being the Seleucid Empire, ruled by Seleucus, the Antigonid Empire, ruled by Antigonus Monophthalmos, the Kingdom of Pergamon, ruled by Attalid Dynasty, and then the Ptolemaic Dynasty, ruled by Ptolemy. The lands being divided up this way means no man won and they had decided after so long of battling and so many wars that it is best to divide. During my time traveling through as a Greek staying in the Ptolemaic Dynasty for a bit it was clear that we were not fond or befriending to non-Greeks. Not being able to speak the language was not accepted. The more time I stayed in Greece the more that became evident and also that they were heavily influenced by the Egyptians, "Ptolemies even adopted the Egyptian royal custom of brother-sister marriages, a practice that eventually percolated down to the

general populace as well" (Pg. 211). As a traveler/trader it was frowned upon for me to do anything for the non-Greeks but I still would because if they had money to pay then they had enough reason for me to trade with them. As time passed, I decided to move on to the Seleucid Empire where the diversity in tradition or religion was not a problem and was much more tolerated than it was in the Ptolemaic Empire. In the Ptolemaic I'd only see Greeks compared to here that I saw Jews, Persians, Assyrians, Armenians etc. Meanwhile traveling, I would overhear how the Seleucid Empire would continue to expand in the east from Syria to India, it would make me wonder how much the empires would continue to grow until they'd clash or meet one they cannot beat.