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to the western part of what's now India,
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and what was then called India also by Greeks.
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He wanted to go all the way to the Ganges River,
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but his army forced him to turn back.
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He died in 323, when he was not yet 33-years-old,
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and he died in Babylon of a fever,
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that is, of course, modern day Iraq.
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After his death, his empire was divided up among his generals,
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and after some fighting and maneuvering and negotiations,
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four successors to Alexander the Great finally ended up
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splitting up his large empire into four smaller empires.
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And we call these four successors simply the Diadochi.