Cleopatra Report

             I did a report on the last pharaoh of Egypt who was Cleopatra VI (6th). Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria, which was the capital of Egypt at the time. Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII (12th) also nicknamed Auletes, was the Pharaoh of Egypt. He most probably married his own sister Cleopatra V Tryphaena. In those days it was okay to marry siblings and family members.
             Cleopatra had two older sisters named Cleopatra VII (7th) and Berenice, she had two younger brothers both named Ptolemy and a younger sister named Arsinoe. Cleopatra VII died of unknown causes.
             Cleopatra and brother Ptolemy inherited the throne in 51 B.C. after their father died. Cleopatra was around 17 or 18 when she married brother Ptolemy who was 12 years old, but it was just a marriage of convenience only. She married him because he was the pharaoh. He was always in the background while Cleopatra ruled alone. Ptolemy's advisors didn't like Cleopatra and banished her to Syria and her little sister Arsinoe went with.
             Cleopatra was determined to regain her throne. Both Ptolemy and Cleopatra were supposed to meet with Julius Caesar to settle their dispute. But Cleopatra knew that if she went to Alexandria in the open Ptolemy's henchmen would kill her. So she smuggled herself to Caesar in an oriental rug. When Caesar saw Cleopatra he was bewitched by her charm and became her lover that very night. When Ptolemy saw them together he was furious saying that he was betrayed. Caesar got Cleopatra his throne back after brother Ptolemy drowned in the Nile trying to escape Caesar's soldiers.
             Later Caesar and Cleopatra went on a two-month cruise on the Nile. Cleopatra found out that she was pregnant at the time. She later gave birth to her son Caesarian or "Little Caesar." Caesar acknowledged Caesarian as his son because Caesarian resembled Caesar a lot.
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