If You Really Know History, You’ll Breeze Through These 40 True-Or-False Questions

Not only that, but she came from a long line of rulers who had lived in Egypt. Ptolemy V and Cleopatra I married each other. Cleopatra VII, the famous one, had no ancestors younger than those two who were not also descendents of those two. Ptolemy VI married his sister, Cleopatra II. Their child, Cleopatra III married Ptolemy VI's other sibling, Ptolemy VIII. They gave birth to Ptomely IX, Ptolemy X, Cleopatra IV and Cleopatra Selene (not numbered since she never became empress.). Ptolemy IX married both his sisters, giving birth to Ptolemy XII and Berenice III. His brother Ptolemy X married his daughter, Berenice III, giving birth to Cleopatra V, who married his son, Ptolemy XII. Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra V married, giving birth to the famous Cleopatra (VII). [Ptolemy V came from a long line of inbreeding Greeks; Cleopatra I came from Seleucid Greeks ruling Persia and may have had significant amounts of Persian blood.]

When asked, most scholars and students of the Greco-Roman world, will say, without hesitation “Cleopatra VII was white—of Macedonian descent, as were all of the Ptolemy rulers, who lived in Egypt.”

I'm not going to weigh into the historical arguments but saying she was Egyptian purely because she was born there is oversimplifying things a lot.

Her mother was unknown, but possibly Greek, as was her father's birthplace, but he invaded Egypt, so it's hard to claim that she was Egyptian, albeit she was born in Alexandria. We know there are Germans in the UK's ancestry - also various French and the Normans who were originally Vikings. We're all probably descended from Charlemagne in one way or the other; but our present King is born of more than three generations of monarchs who were born here, so we're getting further from the "German" tag every time.

Oh for fűck's sake: *f*****t is translated to f a s c i s t.