Choppergold t1_iyvr0l8 wrote
Reply to comment by acm2033 in Why Roman Egypt was such a strange province by oni64
The end of the Hellenistic age and the beginning of the Roman. Cleopatra was not only Egyptian but descended from the Ptolemy who served Alexander the Great himself. Gets forgotten, that Macedonian Greek heritage in Egypt from 300 BC to when Cleopatra killed herself
ValidationRequired t1_iyyewpb wrote
Cleopatra wasn't even ethnically Eqyptian. The Ptolemy dynasty was Greek and did not intermingle with the Egyptian people. Cleopatra was actually the first ruler to even speak Egyptian instead of just Greek like her forebears.
absent_minding t1_iyy4l2q wrote
The legacy of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadochi is extremely interesting. Alexander died at 32 after 13 years of reign and his generals founded kingdoms/dynasties spanning centuries
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