The Rise of Cleopatra
The Ancients
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Cleopatra's Initiative to Bring Egypt Into Rome's Control
The Ptolemy royal family all had barges and sailing the Dandenail was a very Egyptian thing to do traditional Egyptian kings didn't have just one palace they would sail up and down the Nile reminding their people that they existed. It may well be that Cleopatra just wanted to show him his new land or her new land which obviously is he's allied with her it's basically his land. He would also not have been unhappy about this arrangement I think as well bringing Egypt perhaps more into Rome's control.
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