Perdiccas

323 BC – 319 BC · up to 117 thousand km² · Middle East

Perdiccas was a Macedonian general and bodyguard of Alexander the Great, and the regent of Alexander's empire after his death. When Alexander was dying, he entrusted his signet ring to Perdiccas, initially the most pre-eminent of the successors due to being second-in-command. Perdiccas effectively ruled Alexander's increasingly unstable empire from Babylon for three years until his assassination.