First War of the Diadochi

While Pesson, Antipater, and Claterus put down rebellions in various parts of the East and West, Padica was busy fighting in Cappadocia. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlexander the Great did not conquer the region during his crusades, and Ariarathes, the last governor of the Persian Empire, established himself as king here. Antigonus the Great Phrygian Governor "One-Eyed Dragon" was responsible for ensuring that the Eurasian passage was protected from Ariaratis, but he did not support Padicca's conquest of Cappadocia. When Padika summoned him to him, he fled to Antipater.

At the end of 322 BC, civil war broke out, and Antipater and Claterus rose up against Padicca. The reason for this was that Antipater's daughter Nicaea was already engaged to Padica, but when Alexander the Great's mother Olympias proposed to marry his daughter Cleopatra, Alexander the Great's own sister, to Padica, Padica's engagement to Nicaea and Antipater went to war in a fit of rage.

The root cause of the war was that once Padika married Cleopatra, their children became heirs to the throne. Since Philip III or Aridaus was a concubine, and Alexander the Younger was half Asian, the sons of Padicaa and Cleopatra had a legitimate advantage as pure Macedonian ancestry. The deeper reason was that the Macedonian generals, led by Antipater, Claterus, and Antigonus, were dissatisfied with the growing power of Padica. In Egypt, Ptolemy was obscure and bent on independence.

In December 322 BC, Padika transported the remains of Alexander the Great back to a mausoleum built in Aegae, the religious center of Macedonia. When it arrived in Damascus, Ptolemy persuaded the head of the convoy, Polemon, to transfer the body to Egypt and place it in Alexandria for permanence. This action infuriated Padica, who decided to punish Ptolemy.

In 321 BCE, four rebel leaders formed an alliance and married each other. Antipater betrothed his two daughters, Phila and Euridice, to Craterus and Ptolemy, respectively, and Nicaya married Lysimachus, the governor of Thrace. Padica decided to invade Egypt and sent the governor of Cappadocia, Eumenes, against Antipater and Craterus. Eumenes, who had been Alexander the Great's secretary and had never personally commanded a campaign, was presumably inexperienced in military affairs, but he defeated the Macedonian general Craterus near Hellespont, and Craterus was killed and the remnants of his army were incorporated into Antipater's army.

In May 320 BCE, Padicka arrived in Egypt, where he made two attempts to cross the Nile at Pelusium, but was repulsed by Ptolemy. Padica turned to Heliopolis at the top of the delta, but his troops were swept away by the river while crossing. The remnants of Padica's army also mutinied, and he rebelled, and was finally killed by his own generals, Pesson, Seleucus, and Antigenes, the commander of the Macedonian Silver Shield.

Ptolemy negotiated with the generals, and he did not accept the offer to nominate himself as regent, because he was shrewd and determined to keep Egypt for himself, rather than risk fighting for the entire empire. He proposed that Peisson and another general named Alidaus be the regents, neither of whom had the ability and prestige to prevent his independence.

But Antipater was not satisfied with this, and he wanted to become regent himself. After a fierce struggle, finally in Triparadisus, Syria, the generals signed a treaty that stipulated:

Ptolemy retained Egypt and Libya;

Laomodon retained Syria (Ptolemy sent Nicanor to capture him in the same year).

Philotas kept Cilicia (Silesia

Amphimachus kept Mesopotamia and Assyria;

Seleucus kept Babylonia;

Antignis retains Susania (Elam

Peucestas were confirmed as governors of Persia;

Tlepolemus retains Carmania (province of Kerman

Pesson kept Medes;

Philip kept Parthia;

Stasander kept Aria and Drangia

Stasano retains Bactria and Sogdiana;

Sybirtius kept Arachosia

Roxana's father, Oxyartes, kept the Palo Pamisia

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The Indus Valley went to Porus (King of Bauravas, who became Viceroy of India after the defeat at the Battle of the Heydaspes

Cappadocia Guinicano (Antigonus' general) (Nicanor

Antigonus retained Phrygia the Great, Pamphylia, Lycia and Licaunia;

Asander retains Caria;

Clitus kept Lydia;

Aridaus (general) retained Hellespont-Phrygia.

Lysimachos retains Thrace;

Antignis was responsible for collecting tribute from all over Elamite and receiving 3,000 mutinous Macedonian soldiers there.

Antipater also appointed Autolychus, Amyntas, the brother of Peusestas, Ptolemy, the son of Ptolemy, and Alexander, the son of Polysperchon, as the king's guard, and appointed his son Cassander as the commander of the cavalry.

He then sent Antigonus to command Padika's army and continue the battle against Eumenes.

Finally, Antipater, as the new regent, returned to Macedonia with Roxana and two kings, Philip III and Alexander IV.

The Treaty of Tripaladesus declared the end of the unified empire, Egypt's independence was established, and the forces of Antipater and Antigonus effectively divided Europe and Asia.