Alexander’s kingdom was split into _____ major parts?

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• Four. His successors were called the Diodachi. The parts were the kingdom of Macedonia (most of Greece), Antigonus (western Asia Minor and Thrace), Ptolemy (Egypt), and the Seleucid empire…The largest part, being eastern Asia Minor, Iran, and Syria.

  The Diodachi fought among themselves, from about 323 to 301. The Seleucid empire, led by a general called Seleucis, expanded both east and west; conquering some land in India, as well as Antigonus’s kingdom, and taking Palestine from Ptolemy’s Egyptian kingdom.