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Age Of 18 Ptolemy Xiii
1,006 wordsCleopatra is an amazing woman, She was known for many great talents and great achievements. She was a very determined Macedonian queen. She went to many great lengths to keep her grip on the power she was left by will. It was said that Cleopatra was witty, charming, and highly intelligent. Through the research I have collected I will prove to you that Cleopatra was an amazing women. I will do this by uncovering facts of her fathers death, and how she took control of Alexandria, Her Early life, H...
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Ptolemy Xiv Sole Ruler
1,017 words... d inside. Caesar was surprised to have her arrive the way she did. Cleopatra knowing how much Caesar disliked Ptolemy and his men, Cleopatra begged for him to help her gain control of Alexandria back. Within a short time of discussion between the two Caesar agreed to help out Cleopatra. The same night Caesar agreed to help he fell under Cleopatra's spell. They became lovers. It did not take Ptolemy long to hear the news. He was outraged. He stormed out of the palace screaming to everyone he ...
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Nicholas Ii Privilege Russia
2,032 wordsThe quotation, "I shall maintain the principle of autocracy just as firmly and unflinchingly as it was preserved by my unforgettable dead father. ' (Nicholas II) In spite of the Czar's decrees and declarations, Russia, by the beginning of the 20 th century, was overripe for revolution, " is supported by political and socioeconomic conditions late Nicholas II was the Czar of Russia from 1896 - 1917, and his rule was the brute of political disarray. An autocrat, Nicholas II had continued the divin...
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Ways Of Life Alexander The Great
1,277 wordsAlexander the Great's relation to triumph is obvious, he created an army which took over most of the known world. But what is not known widely is how tragic his life was. I cannot do full justice to his life but I will do my best to describe it. When Alexander was a child his parents were constantly fighting and his father was usually away on campaigns, so he rarely saw him when he was young. He therefore was usually under his mother's influence. When he was a young man his father was killed and...
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Saint Catherine Of Alexandria
1,977 words"Do anything you have a mind to do! You will find me prepared to bear whatever it is!" she retorted boldly when faced with her death by beheading. During the fourth century, an inspiring legend was born. Supposedly, a young woman by the name of Catherine lived eighteen years in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. When challenged according to matters of her faith, she firmly held her ground. She converted hundreds of people that served her enemy, Maxentius, to Christianity. Proving that she was, in ...
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Chicago Il London Routledge
489 wordsIt would cast light over thirty-six miles around, a welcoming sight for any lost sailor. The sailor then knew he was coming in toward the bustling city of Alexandria. Alexandria was a large, ancient city. The island, Pharos, on which the lighthouse stood got its name from one mans mishearing and another's misunderstanding. Helen and her husband Menelaus were returning home from Troy when they were blown off course and had to land there. Menelaus found an old man and asked, What island is this? T...
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Autumn Of 328 10 000 Talents Alexander
1,302 words... he met serious resistance at Tyre, where he was refused entry into the island city. The Tyrians walled themselves inside their island fortress. Alexander could not leave them to attack his rear and he could not attack by sea so he decided to build a land bridge, which still exists. He succeeded finally only after seven months, not on land but in a very brutal naval battle. During the siege of Tyre, Darius opened negotiations to his surrender. He even offered a division of his empire. He want...
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Brother Ptolemy Mark Antony
1,901 wordsCleopatra V was born in 69 BC, in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite what people say today, that she was glamorous and beautiful, she was far from it. She is shown on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and masculine features. Although she was not beautiful she was clearly a very seductive woman, and she used this to further Egypt politically. She had a beautiful musical voice. It is also said that she was highly intelligent. She spoke nine different languages, and she was the first Ptolemy pharaoh wh...
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Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch
775 wordsThree students kicked out of a high school for threatening to bring a gun to school. Why would they? Because people were prejudice against them because other students thought they were losers. Moral: You shouldnt not like a person because they arent like you. Prejudice was far much worse in the time period of To Kill A Mockingbird. But, Prejudice is the reason for much social injustice. Three characters named Nathan Radley, Atticus Finch, and Aunt Alexandria show us this in the novel, To Kill A ...
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Brother And Sister Queen Of Egypt
1,844 words... r fathers pro-Roman policies. Upon returning home, Cleopatra learned that there was a plot among the three guardians of her brother. They plotted to get rid of Cleopatra to gain control of the throne for Ptolemy as well as for them. Although kings and queens were supposed to rule jointly, the queens always took second place to the king. If the king was much younger than the queen and not capable of making decisions, it was supposed to be up to the guardians of the king to represent him, shar...
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Ptolemy Xiii Ptolemy Xiv
964 wordsSignificant Woman: Cleopatra I chose to write my "Significant Woman" paper on Egypt's last pharaoh, Cleopatra. When I began my report, I knew very little about Cleopatra, except that she was the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony of Rome. I wondered what impacts on history Cleopatra made on her own. I feel that Cleopatra was a very significant woman in history because she was very aggressive and assertive, characteristics that have always been considered unfeminine. At the same time,...
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Ups And Downs One Of The Greatest
2,245 wordsThe Desert Fox General Erwin Rommel, The Desert Fox, Field Marshall, Hero, Traitor, Enemy, Father, Husband, Instructor. Though he held many titles in his life and was thought of in many different lights, he was and shall be remembered as, a true soldier, a man who men followed fearlessly and enemies dreaded facing. A soldier who remembered and adhered to the chivalrous side of war. A man who was committed to Germany and her people to the end. During peacetime or war, he was always a soldier, the...
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3 Rd Century 2 000 Years
4,266 wordsGREEK Greek Literature Greek Literature GREEK LITERATURE. The great British philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. A similar point can be made regarding Greek literature as a whole. Over a period of more than ten centuries, the ancient Greeks created a literature of such brilliance that it has rarely been equaled and never surpassed. In poetry, tragedy, comedy, and history, Greek writers created masterpieces that have inspi...
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Ptolemy Xiii Caesar
1,900 wordsCleopatra was queen Cleopatra Cleopatra Cleopatra was queen of Egypt, last ruler of the dynasty founded by Ptolemy, a Macedonian general of Alexander the Great, who took Egypt as his share in dividing Alexander? s empire. Her capital, Alexander, founded by Alexander the Great, was the center of Hellenistic Greek culture of the world at that time, as well as a great commercial center. Although she imagined as a? beautiful and glamorous woman today, she was not very attractively depicted on ancien...
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Returned To Rome Queen Of Egypt
1,712 wordsCleopatra is a throne name to many queens from Macedonia who ruled in Egypt. The most famous of these women was Cleopatra VII. She was the daughter of Ptolemy XII Auletes, King of Egypt. Cleopatra VII lived from 69 - 30 B. C. and reigned as queen of Egypt from 51 - 30 B. C. (Encyclopedia Encarta 99). Cleopatra is said to be far from beautiful, despite her glamorous image today. Her picture on ancient coins made her look like she had a long hooked nose and masculine features. She is also said to ...
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Ptolemy Ii Philadelphus Eratosthenes Was Born Library
705 wordsEratosthenes was born Eratosthenes Eratosthenes Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene which is now in Libya in North Africa. His teachers included the scholar Lysanias of Cyrene and the philosopher Ariston of Chios who had studied under Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy. Eratosthenes also studied under the poet and scholar Callimachus who had also been born in Cyrene. Eratosthenes then spent some years studying in Athens. The library at Alexandria was planned by Ptolemy I Site and th...
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Alexander The Great Hanging Gardens
2,282 wordsThe famed Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a collection of seven great temples, monuments, and tombs. The list of wonders is comprised of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos at Alexandria. Six of these marvels have long been destroyed, but their legacies shall live forever. (Carroll, 6 - 15) The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for the...
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German Worker Party National Socialist German
2,030 wordsAdolf Hitler Hitler once shouted from the podium during his rise to power, Struggle is the father of all things It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle (Columbia n. p. ). For Hitler, this view of life was a vicious contest for dominance, a hard lesson beaten into him by his overbearing father. The brutal struggle that Hitler endured during his early life brought about the demand ...
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Louis Xiv Jean Baptiste
3,341 wordsI INTRODUCTION Louis XIV (1638 - 1715), king of France (1643 - 1715), known as the Sun King, who imposed absolute rule on France and fought a series of wars trying to dominate Europe. His reign, the longest in European history, was marked by a great flowering of French culture. Louis was born on September 5, 1638, at Saint Germain-en-Like. His parents, King Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, grateful for an heir after 20 barren years of marriage, christened him Louis Dieudonn (literally, the gift o...
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Forces Of Nature Dark Ages
4,449 wordsThe education of the Greeks exhibits a progressive development. The ideal of Athenian education was the completely developed man. Beauty of mind and body, the cultivation of every inborn faculty and energy, harmony between thought and life, decorum, temperance, and regularity such were the results aimed at in the home and in the school, in social intercourse, and in civic relations. We are lovers of the beautiful, said Pericles, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of...
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