Egypt - The
Greek Period Alexander
the Great conquered Egypt from the Persians in 332 BC. and let
himself crone as the new pharaoh.
He didn’t stay long in Egypt because he wanted to conquer the world.
But he did one thing, he is the founder of the city Alexandria by
the Mediterranean.
Philip Arrhidaius and Alexander the 4. was the next rulers of Egypt,
and Ptolemaius came after them. He worked for the government, and
later a hole dynasty was named after him.
The Greek rulers lived en Egypt and had the own tradition of
military with them from Greece. The Greek also had new traditions of
agriculture. So instead of only to harvest one time a year, they
could now harvest to times a year. All the cities and the gods was
named in Greek, and many of those is still used today.
In
51 BC.
Queen Cleopatra took the throne with her brother Ptolemaius the 13.,
but he didn't stay long because in 48 BC. He was killed. Cleopatra
remarried one of the other brothers. In 47
BC.
Julius Caesar came to Alexandria and he and Cleopatra got the son
Ptolemaius Caesarion. In 46 BC. Cleopatra moves to Rome, where they
lived until Caesar was killed in 44 BC. Cleopatra returns to Egypt
and kills her husband and brother to get back on the throne with her
son.
In 41 BC. Marcus Antonius comes to Egypt and falls in love with the
beauty of Cleopatra. The year after she gives birth to twins and the
year after another son. In 30 BC. The roman army commander Octavian
(later Augustus) conquer Alexandria. Cleopatra tries to escape, but
have to go back to Egypt, but Antonius is going with her. Here in
Egypt both of the commits suicide because they don’t want to go to
Rome and be humiliated.
Alexander
the Great conquered Egypt from the Persians in 332 BC. and let
himself crone as the new pharaoh. 
