![]() ![]() ![]() Everything was in place to begin to make the transition from war to governing during peace except that Alexander died before that transition could be accomplished. His generals were well trained and most would have made good governors of provinces. His soldiers were the best fighting men on the planet, but were weary of war, and ready to start enjoying the plunder they had accumulated from their victories. The power vacuum left in his wake was too large for any man (he was a god after all, a very mortal god as it turned out) to fill. In 323 BC when Alexander the Great died, (from what some believe to be poison, but a growing number of others think from ingesting bacteria filled water from the River Styx), his great empire was held together by his charisma and his force of will. Mosaic of Alexander the Great discovered at the House of the Faun in Pompeii ![]()
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