Cleopatra VII By Amanda

Cleopatra’s Early Years…• Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria, Egypt. • When she was young she liked playing with animals.• She enjoyed playing with her sisters. • Cleopatra became queen when she was eighteen.• She was driven out of Egypt when she was twenty.

Cleopatra on a coin.

Cleopatra is Famous Because…

• Cleopatra was the last queen and pharaoh of Egypt.

• Cleopatra was doing a man’s job in a time where women did not have those kind of rights.

• William Shakespeare wrote a play about her called Antony and Cleopatra.

• She was married to two of the most powerful men in Rome.

• She was the first and only Ptolemy to learn Egyptian.

This is a picture of the book I used.

Cleopatra’s Later Years…

• Cleopatra married her brother Ptolemy XIII, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

• She had four children one was with Julius Caesar the other three were with Mark Antony.

• She fought and lost lots of wars.

• Cleopatra went to Rome a lot of times.

• She died in 30 B.C. at age thirty-nine. No one knows how except that she must have taken some form of poison.

Cleopatra holding a poisonous asp which is a snake.

Cleopatra’s Impact on Others

lives…• Cleopatra helped Egypt become what it

is today.• If she had not lived William

Shakespeare would not have written the play Antony and Cleopatra.

• Cleopatra inspires books, plays and movies.

• She showed that women could do anything that men could do.

• Even though she died young she was a very powerful woman.

A painting of Cleopatra.

My Opinion on Cleopatra• She is a good example of

perseverance because she did not give up her plans with Julius Caesar after he died.

• She was intelligent because in a war she made a battle strategy of putting troops on water and land and it worked.

• She was bilingual because she understood Greek, Latin, Egyptian and other languages.

• Cleopatra was confident because she was fine talking to Rome’s most powerful men.

• Finally she was quick-thinking because of how fast she solved her problems.

Another painting of Cleopatra.

Work Cited

• Cleopatra , By Diane Stanley • www.worldbookonline.com• www.discoverersirs.com• search.ebscohost.com,kids search• www. go.groiler.com• www.wikipedia.com• www.bing.com,images