MYSTERY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER ABOUT CLEOPATRA

.                            Cleopatra
                     (Queen of Egypt)

       

  1.What knowledge did Cleopatra have? 

            She spoke as many as a dozen  languages and was educated in mathematics, philosophy, oratory and astronomy .

2.Who is Cleopatra's friend?

             Charmian She is one of Cleopatra's closest friends and court confidantes

 3.Who falls in love with Cleopatra?

               Marc Antony(Roman general)

4.How old was Cleopatra when she died?

               39 years old

5.How did Cleopatra died?

                Suicide,allegedly from the fatal bite of a venomous snake.

6.What happened to Cleopatra's children?

              Cleopatra had four children in life. One son by Julius Caesar, and three children by Marc Antony. Most of her children died young, her son by Caesar murdered on the orders of the Emperor Augustus, her sons by Marc Antony taken to Rome where they, too, died early.
7.Did Cleopatra marry her brother?
             When Cleopatra's first brother, Ptolemy VIII, drowned after going overboard on a ship crossing the Nile, she then married her even younger, adolescent brother, Ptolemy XIV, who also ultimately died young.
8.Who is the most beautiful Egyptian queen?  
             Queen Nefertari,who was renowned for her beauty and prominence. Called “the one for whom the sun shines,” Nefertari was the favorite wife of pharaoh Ramesses II.

9.Who was Cleopatra's father and mother?

                Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena (who may have been the same person as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena), the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia.

10.What lesson can we learn from Cleopatra?

              The greatest lesson we can learn from Cleopatra is that no matter how well educated you are, no matter how many languages you speak, no matter how politically or scientifically or philosophically or socially savvy you are, no matter if you are the last Pharaoh of a kingdom that has stood for 3000+ years, if you are a woman who has enjoyed romantic/sexual affairs with multiple men, history will always remember you as a seductress and femme fatale regardless of your literally endless feats and accomplishments in fields .







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