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| | Cleopatra, Miss First Millennium of the Christian Era |
 | | Ptolemy XII, Cleopatra's father, was direct descendant of General Lagus one of Alexander the Great's boyhood friends and most trusted generals, later known as the diadochi or general descendants of the imperial power after Alexander's death. |
 | | The Egypt of the Ptolemy Pharaoh Cleopatra VII was an exporter to the Mediterranean world of beans, beer, cabbage, cheeses, cumin, dates, figs, fruits (apricots, peaches), garlic, honey, ivory, lentils, mustard, oils (cotton, linseed, safflower), olives, onions, papyrus, radish, vines, walnuts, wood and wool provided by the river valley and delta. |
 | | Pompey sought refuge with his ally Ptolemy XIII, but Pompey was killed upon his arrival to Alexandria, stabbed on the beach, perhaps in an attempt of the fourteen year old Ptolemy XIII to befriend his enemy Caesar. |
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