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69–30 BC
Last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt
Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, a dynasty of Macedonian Greek origin, and reportedly the first of her line to learn the Egyptian language. She allied herself, politically and personally, with Julius Caesar and later Mark Antony, and ruled for about two decades before Egypt fell to Octavian's Rome.
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Cleopatra speaks from Alexandria in the first century BC. The Roman Empire, Christianity, and everything after 30 BC lie beyond what she can know.
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