Queen Cleopatra and the fall of the Ptolemaic dynasty

Queen Cleopatra VII, you will not find in the entire world an individual whose name has never been heard even once, she is the only queen who had the opportunity to rule the whole world and to make the powerful masters of the world come to her kneeling in her presence.

But before talking about its glories and how it was the last great ruler in the Ptolemaic dynasty, whose rule lasted for more than two centuries on the land of the Nile, dear Egypt, we must know how it was raised, its life and the country in which it grew.

A great queen since the cradle etched her name in history with letters of gold

Queen Cleopatra VII, you will not find in the entire world an individual whose name has never been heard even once, she is the only queen who had the opportunity to rule the whole world and to make the powerful masters of the world come to her kneeling in her presence.

But before talking about its glories and how it was the last great ruler in the Ptolemaic dynasty, whose rule lasted for more than two centuries on the land of the Nile, dear Egypt, we must know how it was raised, its life and the country in which it grew.

Cleopatra VII from birth to the throne of Egypt and the world

Cleopatra is the daughter of King Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysus or Ptolemy Oletes or also known as Ptolemy Piper due to his love to play the small flute "flute" In the celebrations of the god Dionysus, the god of the sea and wine, Ptolemy married the piper from his sister "Trivina", daughter of King Ptolemy IX, who took after marriage the name "Cleopatra VI".

Ptolemy Al-Piper suffered greatly until he obtained recognition from Rome of his right to the throne of Egypt, the price he paid for nearly 6000 gold talents, which was then a huge amount, which was half of Egypt's treasury at the time, so he only covered that amount from the taxes he imposed on the Egyptian people.

King Ptolemy XII married the daughter of King "Ptolemy IX" "Cleopatra VI" and was officially declared king on the throne of Egypt after he agreed to the condition of the consul of Rome "Caesar" and had two children, one of whom was "Cleopatra VII" and the other is supposed to be the heir to the throne "Ptolemy XIII".

Cleopatra VII was born and raised in Alexandria, the capital that was completed by her great-grandfather, King Ptolemy II, the founder of the Ptolemaic state and one of its greatest political and military leaders. She learned the Egyptian and Greek languages and mastered both of them. The reason why she loved Egypt and everything in it, and the forms of its civilization and its symbols, and she used to appear in Egyptian costumes and Egyptian ornaments. The word to the extent that many people nowadays thought that she was an Egyptian queen of origin and not a Greek Greek from the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt after nearly Three decades after Alexander the Great overthrew the last king of ancient Egypt, King "Nakhtenbo II", the last king of the Thirtieth Dynasty according to the Maniton division of Egyptian history.

Cleopatra on the throne of Egypt

Cleopatra's accession to the throne of Egypt was never easy, but was always accompanied by dangers and conflicts that had already begun since the reign of her great-grandfather Ptolemy VIII, who also fought many battles with his elder brother Ptolemy VI. These inherent problems, which are all due to greed to control the offer of Egypt, were also the same battles fought by Cleopatra VII with her brother Ptolemy XIII, which prevented her from entering the royal palace and even the whole of Alexandria during the visit of "Julius Caesar" to make her appear before the latter as she does not care about him or his visit, which he had come from the ground up to rule between them who has the right to rule Egypt based on the opinion of Rome.

But Cleopatra's intelligence, which was clear from childhood, made her resort to a trick is the smartest and most subtle ever and still dazzles her hearers until today, Cleopatra decided to enter Alexandria and the Royal Palace also in front of the guards and her brother's soldiers, but without seeing her, she became hidden and indeed entered the palace simply after hiding herself inside a large carpet wrapped around it and the guards were told that it was a gift for the presence of "Julius Caesar" to Egypt and once she entered the Royal Palace and the parade yard in which her brother was accompanied by "Caesar" Cleopatra came out VII From the carpet like a butterfly reborn after emerging from its cocoon, and at that same moment Caesar was fascinated by her and how cunning and intelligent she was that made her able to turn a problem into an opportunity to seize it for her benefit.

Cleopatra rules the world

After Caesar fell in love with Cleopatra and saw with his own eyes her intelligence, it became inevitable to make her queen of Egypt and Ptolemy XIII knew the fate that awaits him, so he decided to flee Egypt and lost his life by drowning during his escape.

But the love of "Caesar" was overshadowed by anything else in his life, so he married her and took her with him to Rome, and she was not in the meantime queen of Egypt only, so by marrying "Caesar" she became the ruler of everything ruled by "Caesar", including Rome itself, and in the meantime Rome was in control of most of the ancient world, so Cleopatra VII ruled the world, of course.

But that did not like the Council of Senators, which was the one who gave "Caesar" his position as consul of Rome to govern its mandates and decided to get rid of "Caesar" and indeed they summoned him to the Council and stabbed him with twenty stabs from all senator members, but what killed him was the stab of his close assistant "Brutus" and at that moment he said "Caesar" sentence months in history: "Even you, Yabrotus! Then let Caesar fall."