HIST 205 Lecture 6: Week_6_2015_10_07
23 Jul 2016
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Partition of babylon (323: antipater macedon + greece, lysimachus thrace, antigonos monophtalmos asia minor, ptolemy egypt, seleucos babylonia. Perdiccas is named reagent(a mix/combo) of: roxana"s son alexander iv + alexander the great"s half brother (philip arrhidaeus). Perdiccas rule is challenged: 321 perdicas is assassinated. Wars of successors(diadochi) >322-275: large scaled warfare with the generals, anipater is replaced by his son cassander, named himself king of macedon (father didn"t have title before, antigonus attack seleucus territory, seleucus flees, antigonus is the most powerful. Resist coalition of others: defeated when seleucus (antigonus created new army, lycus attacks antigonus. Battle of ipsus (301): antigonos monophthalmos death, defeated by lysimachus and seleucus. + overthrown by demetrius poliorcetes who name himself king of macedon: forced to flee. Ptolemy keraunos(son of ptolemy) assassinates seleucus king. Celtic are defeated by son of demerius (antigonos gonatas) king of. Ptolemaic kingdom ptolemy died in his kingdom in egypt. Last of the kingdom to fall to rome.
