Cleopatra VIICleopatra is in this list even though she is a Queen. In the old days, women were not really treated equally in such places, but Cleopatra, she was respected by a lot of people. Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. She married her ten year old brother. At that time, Egypt was suffering from financial difficulties and divisions caused by civil war, so she united the country again and brought great prosperity back for some time. Her brother didn’t thank her when she did so much things for him, and in 48 BC he and his advisors exiled her to Syria. She started to build up an army to take back her position. As part of her plan, she made an alliance Julius Caesar, the Roman emperor. He helped her achieve her goal, also they had a son called Caesarion. After Caesar was assassinated in 44BC. Mark Antony, a roman general looked to Cleopatra for political alliance. They had 3 children. In 31 BC Mark Antony and Cleopatra joined their armies together to fight against Octavian, but they lost. Both Mark Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide in 30 BC, Cleopatra allowing herself to be bitten by a poisonous snake.
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TutankhamunTutankhamun, also known as King Tut, was the youngest pharaoh in the whole Ancient Egypt history. He became pharaoh at the age of 9, and died when he was 18. He took over his father, Akhenaten, who had set out to reform the religion of Egypt. He wanted Egypt to worship just one god, Aten, as opposed to the many traditional gods that the ancient Egyptians had worshiped for centuries. When Tutankhamun came to power, many of the old temples and monuments had been destroyed. Tutankhamun set about restoring them, along with the old belief system. Much of the evidence we see today of ancient Egyptian would have been destroyed long ago if it wasn’t Tutankhamun’s mission to repair them.
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KhufuKhufu is the second pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Khufu is famous for making the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza/Great Pyramid of Khufu. It is the oldest and the biggest of the three main pyramids referred to as the Giza Necropolis. It is also the oldest on the famous list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, also the only thing that has stayed in good enough condition. This pyramid took between ten and twenty years to build, and when it was finished its size was so big that it held the record for being the tallest man-made structure for nearly 4000 years. It was built as a tomb for Khufu, his two wives and his nobles.
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