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Cleopatravii: The Most Powerful Woman In The Roman World

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CleopatraVII was the most powerful woman in the Roman world. Her rod began to reign only after the death of Alexander the great. Alexander the great invaded Egypt and founded his Kingdom and after his death, Ptolemy became king. Despite the fact that Ptolemy was a Macedonian, he became a great king of Egypt. Ptolemy made Alexandria the capital of his Empire and this city became the richest city of that time. Alexandria eventually became the Greek center of books and there was founded the biggest library in the world. This library contained knowledge about the world. The wealth of Egypt was the river Nile, also called Nile Valley farmers. Because here farmers produced wheat for export to other countries. PtolemyI established a dynasty, which …show more content…

He had three daughters and two sons. He was the father of famous Queen CleopatraVII. The purpose of this report is to show how Cleopatra came to power and what her lifetime was. CleopatraVII was born in 69 BC. In her childhood, most of the time she spent in the library of Alexandria, studying the Greek language and history and geography, mythology, math, etc. She was the first of the Ptolemais who wanted to the Egyptians studied languages. When Ptolemy 12 died, he appointed as monarch his son PtolemyXII who was 12 years old at that time and his daughter CleopatraVII she was 18 years old. CleopatraVII was dominating and had more strength in comparison with his brother. This is all because she learned to manage an Empire by examples of her father. However, the advisers of the young Ptolemy did not want the woman was the head of the Empire and enlisted the help of the people of Alexandria. Thus, CleopatraVII was forced to leave Egypt for a while. (Who was the real CleopatraVII? n.d.) “Partly, she is remembered because of the glamour and tragedy of her life but she is also significant as a woman who exercised considerable power and influence in a male-dominated, patriarchal world whose chief goal was not power for her own

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