4b- 7. What do you think should have been done after Alexander's death?

Alexander's death came very untimely and caused much confusion in his empire. Though he had left generals in charge of certain areas, there were no definite boundaries, so when they were left to themselves, many a battle broke out. The hard thing about Alexander's empire was that it was literally most (if not all) of the known world. That's a big territory for one heir. So leaving one person in charge of his empire probably wouldn't have been the best idea for Alexander at that point, anyways. However, I think that when Alexander became fairly sure that he was going to die, it would have been intelligent to set specific boundaries for separate provinces or city-states in his empire, and then left one person in charge of the representatives for each division of his empire. This would be a government sort of like the one we have in the United States, where there are many different heads of state, but then there is one head of the heads of state, so that there are never any major disagreements. This is sort of the way he was running things while he was alive, by leaving people in charge of each area, only it would need to be more defined and clarified in order to avoid chaos. Though this plan might seem a little complicated, I do think it would have been successful, and who knows? Maybe that region of the world would still be a country or union today.