Cleopatra
- Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt and one of the most powerful women who ever lived.
- She was intelligent and could speak nine languages fluently.
- She was very young when she first came to power.
- She had a child by Julius Caesar, the most powerful man in the world.
- She met Caesar by having herself rolled up in a carpet and carried into his room.
- One reason Caesar was assassinated was his open affair with Cleopatra.
- Then Cleopatra married Marc Antony, also a powerful ruler. They had three children.
- The Roman army defeated Marc Antony, so he committed suicide.
- Cleopatra was captured by the new Caesar, Octavian.
- When she heard about Marc's death, she committed suicide by snake bite. She was thirty-nine.