Chapter 628: Cleopatra's Mausoleum

Tang Zhangwei and Tang Zhaozong had already controlled the situation in the Tang Dynasty, and almost everything in the Tang Dynasty was very tightly controlled by them, and at this time, news came from the Egyptian province of the Tang Dynasty, where the tomb of Cleopatra was found.

Tang Zhangwei and Tang Zhaozong immediately left Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty and flew to the Egyptian province of the Tang Dynasty in a wooden bird.

There, many of the Tufu had gathered, and they all wanted to see how much wealth the world-famous Cleopatra could bring them.

What kind of surprise can this woman who bewitched Caesar and Caesar's general Anthony in the legend bring them?

Cleopatra VII was the last female pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt. She had a poisonous snake bite her to kill herself in order to end both her own life and that of Egypt (though research has shown that her death was more likely to result from Octavian's murder). From then on, Egypt became part of the Roman Empire until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century.

She is talented, intelligent, witty, good at means, unpredictable, and has a dramatic life. In particular, she was involved in the political maelstrom at the end of the Roman Republic, and her close relationship with Caesar and Antony, accompanied by various anecdotes, made her a famous figure in literature and art.

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and was a descendant of the Kingdom of Macedonia, which ruled Egypt at the time. When Alexander the Great established an empire with an unprecedented territory, he gave Egypt to one of his generals, Ptolemy Sotel, who immediately established the Ptolemy Sotel dynasty in Egyptian history. Cleopatra was the second daughter of King Cleides Ptolemy Auret.

Cleopatra was one of the crowned monarchs of the Ptolemaic dynasty after Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt. Her father, Ptolemy XII, Aulet, appointed his eldest son, Ptolemy XIII, to rule with her (according to the law of the time, Cleopatra had to marry her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII), to rule Egypt. In 51 BCE, Cleopat** ascended to the throne. Cleopatra was undoubtedly a focal point in ancient Egypt, and in later accounts, this Egyptian beauty not only temporarily preserved a dynasty by virtue of her overwhelming appearance, but also caused the kings of the mighty Roman Empire to bow down under her pomegranate skirt and willingly serve it. Dante, Shakespeare and others described the legendary woman as "a sensual enchantress of the world"; George Bernard Shaw also called her "a willful and unobtrusive woman". Cleopatra VII was the daughter of the Egyptian kings Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra V, born in 69 BC and raised in a lavish court. In 51 BC, her father died, leaving a will appointing Cleopatra VII and her half-brother Ptolemy XIII (63~47 BC) as heirs and ruling together. But the two of them are at odds with factional struggles and power struggles. After being expelled from Alexandria in 48 BCE, Cleopatra VII gathered an army along the Egyptian-Syrian border in preparation for an invasion of Egypt. By her father's arrangement, Cleopatra was customarily married to her half-brother (later Claudius Ptolemy XIII), and the two of them ruled together. The ambitious Cleopatra wanted to gain further power, but the two ministers, Posinius and Octvian, joined forces against her and drove her to Syria, where she raised an army to fight for the throne of Egypt by force.

At this time, Gaius Julius Caesar pursued Pompey to Egypt, and Bertinus Bertinus, a subordinate of Cledeus Ptolemy XIII, killed Pompey and sacrificed his head to Gaius Julius Caesar in order to please him, hoping to use Caesar to get rid of his sister Cleopatra. But this move did not win him Caesar's favor. Cleopatra also wanted to take advantage of Caesar to help her take the throne, so she ordered her subordinates to disguise themselves as merchants and wrap themselves in a large blanket, and when the merchant came to Caesar's house to ask Caesar, she came out of the blanket and met Caesar. Cleopatra was in her prime at that time, and she used her beauty and intelligence to charm Caesar, who ordered Cleopatra's father's will to be executed, and Cleopatra and Cledemus Ptolemy XIII ruled together.

Bosinus then rebelled, was killed after the rebellion failed, and Cledemus Ptolemy XIII was killed while on the run. Caesar conquered Egypt but did not include it in Roman territory. From then on, Cleopatra lived with Caesar and had a son named Filopato Firomotto Caesar, which means "Gaius Julius Caesar the Younger". At the same time, Caesar restored Cleopatra to the throne. In 45 B.C., Cleopatra VII and Ptolemy XIV were invited together to Rome and were honored to stay in Caesar's private residence on the other side of the Tree. Caesar fulfilled his oath by building a temple in Rome dedicated to Venus, the ancestor of his Julius line, and erecting a golden statue of Cleopatra VII next to the goddess. Seeing that she was about to become the first lady of the Roman world, Caesar was assassinated on March 15, 44 BC. Cleopatra VII's dream vanished and he left Rome in disgrace.

When Cleopatra VII returned to Egypt, she poisoned Ptolemy XIV and appointed her and Caesar's son as Ptolemy XV to rule Egypt together. His son was proclaimed the son of the god Amun. At this time in Rome, Octavian, the adopted son of Gaius Julius Caesar, and his subordinate Mark Antony quelled the turmoil in Rome, and the two divided their spheres of influence. Octavian ruled the west, while Antony ruled the east. Antony summoned Cleopatra to Tarsus during the attack on Anthony, hoping to obtain the riches of Egypt in order to solve the problem of feeding the army.

Cleopatra came to Tarsus to meet Antony in a large golden ship and dressed in bright clothes. Her beauty also won over Antony, and the two lived together in Tarsus for 12 years, and Cleopatra gave Antony three children. The queen managed to keep her throne and the kingdom of Egypt.

After Caesar's death, Antony reigned supreme in Rome. After his final defeat of the republican leaders Brutus and Cassiillo at the Battle of Philippi, he toured the provinces of the East in agreement with Octavian to raise funds. In 41 BC he arrived at Tarsus in Silesia, where he sent an envoy to Egypt and summoned Cleopatra VII.

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