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Conflict Middle East

Wars of the Diadochi

322 BCE – 281 BCE · 41 years

The brutal 40-year power struggle between Alexander's generals that shattered his empire into rival kingdoms — Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Persia, and Antigonid Macedon.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Successor generals of Alexander

Key moments

Defining events in the Wars of the Diadochi.

  1. 301 BC Ipsus
  2. 281 BC Corupedium

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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Landmark · Middle East

Petra

300 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Seleucid Kingdom

311 BCE – 62 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Phoenician Trade Route

800 BCE – 300 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Ptolemaic Kingdom

304 BCE – 29 BCE

Trade route · Middle East

Nile River Trade

3000 BCE – 30 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Byblos

3000 BCE – 300 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Damot

Attested 300 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 322 BCE and 281 BCE.

300 BCE Petra 305 BCE Seleucid–Maurya War 300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Samarkand 300 BCE Antioch

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Colossus of Rhodes Landmark · Europe 282 BCE – 226 BCE Greek city-states Polity · Europe 1500 BCE – 300 BCE Grand Trunk Road Trade route · South Asia 300 BCE Sicilian Wars Conflict · Europe 480 BCE – 307 BCE Aristotle Figure · Greece 384 BCE – 322 BCE Volubilis Landmark · Africa 300 BCE – 1200 CE
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