Cleopatra - A Drunken Bet - Egyptian History - Extra History - Part 1

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This channel truly has a series on everything. I'm expecting this once again to turn my understanding on it's head, though autocorrect said underwear

Aspen look so sad

Don’t know if I agree with the conclusion that the ptolemies were playing the Romans for their gold. First off, I doubt much of that money made its way down to infrastructure, let alone the Egyptian peasantry, though that’s to be expected of the time period to an extent. It’s kind of a similar relationship to what britain had with the shahs of Iran. Profitable for the elite, yes, but hardly mutually beneficial. There’s also the fact that rome lent their soldiers to the Ptolemy family, keeping them in perpetual debt. I get why you’d make the argument for the narrative of the video, but it’s just factually incorrect.

If killing yourself so he cant march you in his triumph is "getting one over" on someone then yeah, cleopatra totally pwned Octavian

I just recently dove into the Undertale fandom, so listening to you describe historical figures getting dunked on was hilarious.

So, succession was basically capture the flag, but the flag is a corpse 😄

The Ptolemaic Dynasty were Greeks as Egyptian cosplay..
Alexander the Great was sucky at succession..
Ptolemey "joined" Egypt.
Yes, alot more to the story..
It worked until Rome happened..😉🤔

Way better than the new documentary ❤🤣

That moment when the EH team makes a better documentary about Cleopatra than Netflixs.

So cleopatra was most likely Greek?

How in the world did she one up Octavian when he absolutely dunked on her and made Egypt submit to Rome?

could you make a vid on the chineese Wu Zetian?

It is very likely that Cleopatra was darker skinned than Marc Antony but she was a Greek princess and did not have a lot of North African or Arabian heritage as most Egyptians do.

Possibly one of the best things to watch while playing AC Origins!

How do you figure she dunked on Octavian? He smashed her fleet and sacked her city. She killed herself. Seems like he crushed her.

If being forced to kill yourself and having your family legacy turned into the personal property of the Roman Emperor than by all means Cleopatra dunked on Octavian.

Fratricide Patricide and all the cides could I think

"She dunked on Octavian"
Who won at Actium again? And what happened after that particular battle?

69 BCE? Makes sense for the legend

I forgot there was an Egyptian goddess named Isis, that was a small jumpscare!

I don't know about her dunking on them exactly, especially Octavian. He got the ultimate dunk on her in the end

Greco-macedonian i.e. Greek.

ALIENS CARVED ON THE WALLS OMG IT WAS ALIENS SHE IS A ALIEN🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸👽👽👽👽👽👽

Cleopatra: Time for a game of disappearing Ptolemies.

Sometimes adverts come at the perfect moment and create comedy.
This time it came just as Cleopatra gave her response to Antony.
She told him to ******* hahaha

The greatest mystery is how she drank a whole glass of vinegar

So basically she was an average Crusader Kings player heir/character.

Murder? Check.
Genius but slightly inbred? Check.
Political focus and devious? Check.

Your naming the snake "Aspen" got me slithering on the floor laughing.

It’s funny how the Egyptian and Roman function feels kind of similar to America and Saudi Arabia. (No offense meant to anyone.)

que pro

so weve got a dragon a cat a cobra a turtle i think and a few rabbits. I really cant remember every animal in this show

Interesting

Cobras are not Vipers!

incest baby Cleopatra vs god emperor caesar who would win

Also hate how this episode they completely overlook the Successor rivalries in the Ptolemaic history, especially against the Seleucids

Cleopatra still pretty much affecting our lifestyle in Egypt till now 😅

you know you're destined for greatness if you're born in the year 69

Brilliant!

Fun Fact:

A pearl weighing 1 gram takes 24 to 36 hours to dissolve in vinegar, so it's physically impossible for Cleopatra to have dissolved her giant pearl then drink it in the same night as the tall tale goes.

What's that about Cleopatra dunking on Augustus 2 millennia later?

What a way to waste a gorgeous pearl D:

"And so, with Catherine the Great and her Russian people fleeing into space, the world decided to declare her the winner -- if for no other reason than the fact that no one else had really escaped the Hell on Earth they had all created together.

...Except for Egypt. They're the real winners."

nice.

This series isn’t in the Chronological Order playlist, just so you know.

Really like the snaked