In the end, when she's defeated, she references the exact same way she killed herself IRL: let an asp bite her. Like Dom Pedro II (Brazil). The words he says upon defeat were his real last words in real life: "Peace and prosperity for Brazil".
Im surprised they added Cleopatra since she was technically Macedonian (Greek), not Egyptian. If they wanted an Egyptian, they should went with either Ramasses II or Hepshasut.
@@luckluster good point, the people we associate with certain times and civilizations tend to be the extremely unique individual or group who brought a time of prominence to their civilization back then. Cleopatra isn’t technically Egyptian, she was indeed Macedonian, however she became Egyptian in culture and brought prominent rule back to Egypt - a rule so well it was involved in the story of another empire of ‘not so foreign’ rulers and people (romans).
Well, she came from a Macedonian dynasty (Ptolemic), not Macedon itself, but I get your point. They mostly choose leaders based on personality, though...
This is how we often think of her looking but that was mainly for theatrics like if she wanted to impress someone powerful and influential. Her daily outfit was mainly like that of a classical Greek princess since Egypt was a Greek colony at this time.
Cleopatra being depicted as this hot seductress is a wildy popularised image of her, mainly just because she was a woman who had multiple relationships and did the sex sometimes. But she wasn't remarkably beautifull. She was intelligent and witty, which the Romans liked.
@@Mayflower_88 Wow you're dumb Cleopatra was very inbreed, both her parents was greek and she was actually the only Leader in the ptolemaic dynasty that spoke Egyptian. She spoke greek with the romans and the greeks, and egyptians with the egyptians. Just because you were born somewhere doesen't mean you have their DNA. That's like saying Joe Biden is Native American just because he's the president of their original homeland
@@Mayflower_88 Actually it does, especially since the Ptolemies were culturally isolated from native Egyptians and never identified themselves as Egyptian.
She is said to have spoken multiple languages and since she was the ruler of egypt and the last Pharaoh, she wouldn't have been taken seriously if she wouldn't be fluent in ancient egyptian. She is believed to be of Macedonian-Greek and Egypt descent which would make her a child of both countries. Since the identity of her mother however is still unknown and only speculated upon, we will only know for sure once her tomb is found and a DNA analysis might tell us more. It actually saddens me... that we still haven't found her tomb yet... since I would wager she is the most prominent figure from ancient egypt, even beating "King Tut" in popularity :D
Saying she's "Greek" is like saying Donald Trump is German. Cleopatra's family had lived in Egypt for seven generations and she was the seventh of her name. She may have been of Greek extraction but she was definitely Egyptian ethnically and culturally.
@@therexbellator LOL! She was not just "of Greek extraction". She was a 100% Greek and of a very inbred family as well. In her kingdom lived about 12 million Egyptians and 1 million ethnic Greeks who were the upper ruling class, the vast majority of whom did not speak a word in Egyptian, it was rather the Egyptians, the upper class at least, that learnt Greek to communicate with them. None of these Greeks there ever self-identified as "Egyptian" and there was always a social pressure of Egyptians feeling complexes of inferiority towards the Greeks for that reason, the very reason why the kingdom of the Ptolemeys eventually failed to defend itself for lack of a proper army as Egyptians, even if not minding the Greeks enough to have a motive to rebel, they were perennially disinterested in the survival of the kingdom. You need to understand that even a 1000 years late, when Arabs conquered Egypt they found the Greeks there talking Greek and living Greek-style still as a ruling class. And they would never self-identify as "Egyptians", on the contrary you would have many half-castes and even Egyptians self-identifying as Greeks for obvious social reasons. Speaking of Cleopatra, she was pure Greek, she had nothing Egyptian on herself, she was a Greek woman, from a Greek family with her ancestor being Ptolemey, an illustrious general of Alexander the Great. Throughout all these generations absolutely none of the Ptolemeys ever learnt Egyptian, it is just that Cleopatra, curious enough, scrapped some Egyptian among other during her studies just to be more popular with her Egyptian subjects. That does not mean she would ever use Egyptian in her everyday life (being surrounded mostly by a Greek court, not an Egyptian one) let alone in any diplomatic mission. At best she would only use some Egyptian when speaking to e.g. Egyptian priests - and even that is not certain as Egyptian priests back then spoke definitely fluent Greek, they had to, they had no choice. At best she would use her knowledge of Egyptian, of whatever level, to read a couple of Egyptian scrolls, not really to converse. With Ceasar of course they were talking exclusively in Greek. In spite of her being shown in artwork sometimes as an Egyptian pharao, she would not dress in her everyday life (guess how much in a diplomatic mission) like Egyptians but always as a Greek woman following the Greek (and Roman, similar) fashions of the day. I seriously do not understand all this pseudohistoric effort to portray her as "Egyptian", dress and language. Talk about severe complexes.
0:07 Stop it Lady, I can't negotiate with so much blood rushing down from my brain so fast.
what does that mean?
@@shrekzebee4435 She's hot, so the blood is leaving his brain and rushing to his...y'know.
@@godsavant i have lost whats left of my innocence
I'm sure Caesar or Marcus couldn't hold it back either so I hear ya on that!
@@shrekzebee4435rip
Celopatra could ruin my life
Down terrible
@@PeakStoryTime2 well, she WAS the most beautiful girl for her time
@@PeakStoryTime2 Well atleast you’re self aware about it bro
she such a baddie bruh ong 😍😍😍
Pov: your army is weak and she want to "talk" with you while she has 5 warrior outside your boards
tf ancap obama?
cleopatra gonna make me do something im gonna regret
Did you did it?
In the end, when she's defeated, she references the exact same way she killed herself IRL: let an asp bite her.
Like Dom Pedro II (Brazil). The words he says upon defeat were his real last words in real life: "Peace and prosperity for Brazil".
Im surprised they added Cleopatra since she was technically Macedonian (Greek), not Egyptian. If they wanted an Egyptian, they should went with either Ramasses II or Hepshasut.
Napoleon wasn't French and Stalin wasn't technically Russian.
@@luckluster good point, the people we associate with certain times and civilizations tend to be the extremely unique individual or group who brought a time of prominence to their civilization back then. Cleopatra isn’t technically Egyptian, she was indeed Macedonian, however she became Egyptian in culture and brought prominent rule back to Egypt - a rule so well it was involved in the story of another empire of ‘not so foreign’ rulers and people (romans).
@@luckluster Damn I want Napoleon so bad. Stalin would be cool as well but, I get why he's unlikely to get back in.
She should at least speak greek lol
Well, she came from a Macedonian dynasty (Ptolemic), not Macedon itself, but I get your point. They mostly choose leaders based on personality, though...
0:52 angry GF mode
Geez she’s passive-aggressive
She had to do it to us
I don't blame mark antony
She's a total babe
Half the comments here are down horrendous 💀💀💀
I have a crush on Cleopatra
why does she keeps glancing down?
Checking out the PP size
@@TheWizardOfTheMist “Is that a Sphinx in your pants or are you just happy to see me?”
"Why yes, you can clutch my asp to your bosom"
This is how we often think of her looking but that was mainly for theatrics like if she wanted to impress someone powerful and influential. Her daily outfit was mainly like that of a classical Greek princess since Egypt was a Greek colony at this time.
Mommy Cleopatra 😳
0:22 POV: you border egypt early game
i feel so incel.......
Mmmmm Mommmyyyy
*PETITION TO MAKE CLEOPATRA AN ALTERNATE LEADER FOR BOTH EGYPT AND MACEDONIA, AND HAVE THE BASE-LEADER FOR EGYPT BE RAMESSES II*
Alexander is better f you.
@@uploaded9787 That wasn't anything to do with my point wth? XD Chill! An ALTERNATE leader, not a REPLACEMENT leader
@@youvebeengreekedits not me its a five year old. XD
Agreed
She was never the queen of Macedon
Cleopatra being depicted as this hot seductress is a wildy popularised image of her, mainly just because she was a woman who had multiple relationships and did the sex sometimes. But she wasn't remarkably beautifull. She was intelligent and witty, which the Romans liked.
It bugs me that she speaks Egyptian and not Greek.
Nice
Ooh yes…
Wow
@ 1:03 Now, now, Your Highness, let's not be hasty. There's other ways besides poisonous old snakes...
Kinda wish she spoke greek aswell, as she was greek.
Cleopatra was born in Egypt, her having Greek ancestry does not make her Greek. Using your reasoning, only the Niubians were Egyptians.
@@Mayflower_88 Wow you're dumb
Cleopatra was very inbreed, both her parents was greek and she was actually the only Leader in the ptolemaic dynasty that spoke Egyptian. She spoke greek with the romans and the greeks, and egyptians with the egyptians.
Just because you were born somewhere doesen't mean you have their DNA.
That's like saying Joe Biden is Native American just because he's the president of their original homeland
@@Mayflower_88 Actually it does, especially since the Ptolemies were culturally isolated from native Egyptians and never identified themselves as Egyptian.
Generations removed. She would’ve been dogshit if she were a Greek. Good thing she sprouted in egypt
@@Mayflower_88 bruh she was greek if her parents and entire dynasty are Greek she was the only member of her dynasty to actually speak Egyptian 😅
Bb
why does she speak egyptian? she was greek
She might have been Greek, but records show that Cleopatra was fluent in Ancient Egyptian as well
She is said to have spoken multiple languages and since she was the ruler of egypt and the last Pharaoh, she wouldn't have been taken seriously if she wouldn't be fluent in ancient egyptian. She is believed to be of Macedonian-Greek and Egypt descent which would make her a child of both countries. Since the identity of her mother however is still unknown and only speculated upon, we will only know for sure once her tomb is found and a DNA analysis might tell us more. It actually saddens me... that we still haven't found her tomb yet... since I would wager she is the most prominent figure from ancient egypt, even beating "King Tut" in popularity :D
Saying she's "Greek" is like saying Donald Trump is German. Cleopatra's family had lived in Egypt for seven generations and she was the seventh of her name. She may have been of Greek extraction but she was definitely Egyptian ethnically and culturally.
@@therexbellator she spoke greek better than egyptian, and the kingdom she lived in was up to recently greek not egyptian. learn history buffoon
@@therexbellator LOL! She was not just "of Greek extraction". She was a 100% Greek and of a very inbred family as well. In her kingdom lived about 12 million Egyptians and 1 million ethnic Greeks who were the upper ruling class, the vast majority of whom did not speak a word in Egyptian, it was rather the Egyptians, the upper class at least, that learnt Greek to communicate with them. None of these Greeks there ever self-identified as "Egyptian" and there was always a social pressure of Egyptians feeling complexes of inferiority towards the Greeks for that reason, the very reason why the kingdom of the Ptolemeys eventually failed to defend itself for lack of a proper army as Egyptians, even if not minding the Greeks enough to have a motive to rebel, they were perennially disinterested in the survival of the kingdom.
You need to understand that even a 1000 years late, when Arabs conquered Egypt they found the Greeks there talking Greek and living Greek-style still as a ruling class. And they would never self-identify as "Egyptians", on the contrary you would have many half-castes and even Egyptians self-identifying as Greeks for obvious social reasons. Speaking of Cleopatra, she was pure Greek, she had nothing Egyptian on herself, she was a Greek woman, from a Greek family with her ancestor being Ptolemey, an illustrious general of Alexander the Great. Throughout all these generations absolutely none of the Ptolemeys ever learnt Egyptian, it is just that Cleopatra, curious enough, scrapped some Egyptian among other during her studies just to be more popular with her Egyptian subjects. That does not mean she would ever use Egyptian in her everyday life (being surrounded mostly by a Greek court, not an Egyptian one) let alone in any diplomatic mission. At best she would only use some Egyptian when speaking to e.g. Egyptian priests - and even that is not certain as Egyptian priests back then spoke definitely fluent Greek, they had to, they had no choice. At best she would use her knowledge of Egyptian, of whatever level, to read a couple of Egyptian scrolls, not really to converse. With Ceasar of course they were talking exclusively in Greek. In spite of her being shown in artwork sometimes as an Egyptian pharao, she would not dress in her everyday life (guess how much in a diplomatic mission) like Egyptians but always as a Greek woman following the Greek (and Roman, similar) fashions of the day.
I seriously do not understand all this pseudohistoric effort to portray her as "Egyptian", dress and language. Talk about severe complexes.
Is it Arabic that she speaks?
Ancient Egyptian.
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