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Cleopatra 7th

by Christie from Colorado

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Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Egypt

Cleopatra the Seventh was the queen of Egypt for twenty years. She became queen at the age of eighteen after her father died. She had three brothers. One of her brothers was ten years old and the other one was named Ptolemy, which he was the XIIV. Her third husband that she married was Marcus Antonius. Since Cleopatra was queen she had always gotten what she wanted, until one day the Chief Minister didn’t. He was later requested by Queen Cleopatra to be killed. Cleopatra committed suicide by letting a poisonous snake bite her. After she had died, her son ruled Egypt, and made it into a Roman Province. I believe that Cleopatra was a heroic person because she was courageous, responsible and also that she was sometimes a good person when she wanted to be.

The reason why I believe that Cleopatra was a courageous person is because she cared for her people very much. She would always do kind things for her people. With her being kind she respected them and their wishes, and also did the right thing for them for whatever the occasion was. Her main goal was to never let anything or anyone down.

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Cleopatra VII

The reason why I believe that Cleopatra was responsible was because she always took responsibility for her own actions. For the twenty years that she was queen, she was a really good queen. A good thing that she did was she fought for her country and she even won the battle! She did what she could to make her father happy. That she never stepped down from the throne for the twenty years that she was queen, and that she took care of her country every step of the way is what I call a heroic action.

The third reason why I believe that Cleopatra was heroic is because that she was usually really nice and honest. The reason why I believe that she was that way was because she cared for her father very much and that she believed that she should do everything that she could do to make her father happy, The way that she tried to make her father happy was by taking the throne and responsibility of her country. She loved her father very much and she really did love her family and her country. She wanted to do the right thing.

Those are the reasons why I believe that Cleopatra was a heroic person, because she was courageous, responsible and kind.

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Bibliography

Iren M., Frank . Women. United States: David M. Brownster, 1999.

North, Heidi . Women who changed the world. New York: Penguin Group, 1995.