Andrew Schulz
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But essentially, she's born into this long lineage, this 300-year-long dynasty of Greek rulers ruling over the Egyptian people from Alexandria.
So Alexandria has really greatly expanded.
It's extremely wealthy.
What's the makeup?
Is it mainly Greeks or it's mainly Egyptians?
That's a great question.
What does it look like at the time?
The city of Alexandria was broken up into ethnic neighborhoods.
So you had Greek people, you had Egyptians.
Spanish Harlem.
You had a Jewish neighborhood.
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
And you may have had a neighborhood for...
You may have had a neighborhood for sub-Saharan Africans, but a small one.
I forget exactly, but I know those are the big three.
Greek, Egyptian, and Semitic people are living there.
And so Cleopatra is born...
At the very end of this dynasty, although nobody knows this at the time that this will be the end.
But through hooker by crook, she essentially rises her way to power.