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The last official pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
Who is Cleopatra?
The longest river in the world and the source of life for Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
The term for a belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
Cleopatra met Julius Caesar by coming out of a ____ after she sneaked into her brother's palace to ask Caesar to help her get her throne back.
What is a rug?
What is speak demotic/Egyptian language?
The Roman ruler who helped restore Cleopatra to the throne after her brother exiled her and started the War for Alexandria.
Who is Julius Caesar?
The city that Cleopatra lived in when she grew up and where her palace was located.
What is Alexandria?
The term for believing in many gods.
What is polytheism?
Cleopatra's ethnicity.
What is Greek?
Who is Alexander the Great?
Cleopatra's dyansty.
Who are the Ptolemaic Dynasty?
What is the Library of Alexandria?
The organ that the soothsayer thought was missing in a bull that predicted Caesar's death.
What is a heart?
What animal was sacred in Egypt, Cleopatra helped to introduce the new one to the Egyptian people on the Nile River, and they believed the organs told the future.
Bonus: Name specific one that Cleopatra took down the Nile River. (100 points)
What is a bull?
Who is Apis?
After Caesar was assassinated, the power of Rome was given to these 2 men.
Who is Octavian and Marc Antony?
The Roman military leader who sought help from Ptolemy XIII but was ultimately assassinated by him when he came to Egypt.
Who is Pompey the Great?
The ancient wonder of the world that was in Alexandria that was destroyed over time.
What is the Lighthouse of Alexandria?
The three languages that were on the Rosetta Stone.
What is demotic, Greek, and hieroglyphics?
Alexander the great won _______ battles.
What is all of them/undefeated?
When Alexander the Great was dying he was asked who the empire should go to and he responded, "____________________________".
What is "to the strongest"?
The Roman ruler who fought Marc Antony and Cleopatra during a civil war, is the reason they died, and killed Caesarion.
Who is Octavian?
The river that Julius Caesar crossed with his army which was illegal and started the Roman civil war.
What is the Rubicon River?
What is 6,000 talents or $120,000,000?
Cleopatra's 2 sons with Marc Antony.
Bonus: Extra 200 (100 each) if you know why they were named that.
Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River he said, "_________________" which means that there was no turning back and he was making a history changing decision.
What is "the die is cast"