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Cleopatra was a queen of Egypt but she was not Egyptian. She was the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great's death in 323 BCE to about 30 BCE.
She was a talented and resourceful individual of great charm but ruthless when she felt she had to be.
Cleopatra was the only one of her family that learned to speak the Egyptian (Coptic) language.
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She knew a half dozen to a dozen other languages. She was an educated intellectual and a capable administrator. Despite her abilities and effort she failed and her life was one of sadness rather than glamour.
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- 320 BCE: Alexander conquers Egypt effortlessly as a minor side-campaign in his conquest of the Persian Empire.
- 323 BCE: Alexander dies in Babylon upon his return from the conquest of what is now Afghanistan, the Indus River Valley and the areas in Central Asia north of Afghanistan.
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Upon his death his generals divide up Alexander's empire. Ptolemy gets Egypt. Cleopatr