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On his deathbed some ancient historians claimed that when he was pressed to name a successor Alexander the Great muttered that his empire should go to the strongest Other sources claim that he passed his signet ring to his general Perdiccas thereby naming him successor but whatever his choices were or may have been they were ignored Alexanders generals all of them with the loyalty of their own corps at their backs would tear each other apart in a vicious internal struggle that lasted almost half a century before four factions emerged victorious Macedonia the Seleucid Empire in the east the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor and the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt During the course of these wars Alexanders only heir the posthumously born Alexander IV was murdered extinguishing his bloodline for ever