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| | Cleopatra, Miss First Millennium of the Christian Era |
 | | Cleopatra VII was the last female Pharaoh of Egypt and her son, Pharaoh Ptolemy XV Caesarion, the last of a long line of thirty dynasties of god-kings that stretched back from 3100 BC to 30 BC. |
 | | 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. |
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