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SUCCESSOR PLANNING

For all of my efforts to realize a universal empire based on Greek Civilization, The Macedonian Empire did not last much past my death.

Was I surprised? Yes and No.

I never cared much for successor planning because I was not expecting to die at such an early age. I did father a child, partially explaining why I married in the first place.

But even if I had expected to leave this world for another, I would have probably not changed anything. The same way that I was the best man to seize the throne after my father’s leadership, I thought best to let the best man claim the throne upon my death.

In the end, my one-time glorious kingdom was immediately carved up into several pieces by my generals. It turned out that none of them possessed the charisma and vision required for the job.

Had they stuck together, they would have defended against invaders. But they succumbed to the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire as well as the Turkish Empire.

Over twenty-two hundred years later, my country was embroiled in even greater World Wars and sliced up as part of a nation called Yugoslavia, which itself went through a period of hell I would not wish upon anyone (well, Tyre, Thebes and Persepolis notwithstanding).

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