How Did Alexander the Great’s Empire Collapse So Quickly? The 6 Reasons Behind Its Dramatic Fall

Alexander the Great · Part 1 · October 336 – winter 335 BC Philip II had made Macedon, a kingdom of horsemen on the northern edge of the Greek world, the strongest power in Greece. In October 336 BC, at the wedding of his daughter in the old royal city of Aegae (Vergina), he walked into the theatre and was stabbed by Pausanias, one of his own bodyguards. His son Alexander was 20, and was acclaimed king by the army. The Greek cities Philip had beaten talked of revolt. Alexander marched south at o