Cleopatra's Debt To Rome

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At the age of eighteen, Cleopatra life turn upside with her father debt to Rome. Landing on small troops in Alexandria, Egypt. Thirty years older than Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, a Roman leader who gave pride in battles and seem to strategies his ways in that he was presented by Pompey’s head in once he steps onto shore of the Rubicon River. Egypt was in a conflict of a leader between two older siblings in a family feuds for next in line for the throne. Rome needed Egypt because its grain supplies and a have Egypt stable. Ptolemy XIII tried to convince Caesar to acknowledge him as sole ruler of Egypt and barred Cleopatra from seeing him. (Jarus, March 2013, par 14) Cleopatra manages to sneak into the palace in Alexandria and plead her case to