marriage of convenience. She probably just married him because he was the pharaoh and she wanted to be the Queen of Egypt. He was always in the background while Cleopatra ruled alone. Ptolemy's advisors didn't like Cleopatra and banished her to Syria. Her little sister Arsinoe had also went with her. This had happened around the time that the Nile wasn't flooding the banks.
             Pompey wanted to have control over the Roman Empire so him and Caesar were in a conflict called the Alexandrian War. When Caesar arrived in Alexandria, Ptolemy Caesar brought him a present, his rival's death, but also he thought to gain favor to himself by showing that he never supported Pompey. Caesar wasn't too happy with what Ptolemy had done since after all, Pompey had once been his friend. This was when Caesar had immediately tooken over the palace and was shouting out orders, "Do this. Do that." I can't blame him though, because I would have been pretty mad too, since of course a
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