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"Egypt"...? formerly known as #Khemet... too much Sun there to believe that all that pale skin originated there. ...thinking about the passage in the book #GrowingUpX, where #Cleopatra is mentioned...in the same context as #MsLaurynHill...who sang/rapped "...more Power-Full than two Cleopatra's" ... cites "...history told foul." ~ #Nas
She was a writer, brave, fashion designer, nearly a doctor, polyglot with 8 languages, charming, prodigy I mean I don't think she had to be more beautiful to manipulate men.
Cleopatra was her intelligent and good at anything strategic. Therefore she became An expert on psychology of people minds. Therefore she knew how to control. Seducing was easy for her. No she wasn't a "classic " Beauty..she knew how to manipulate and get what she wanted. It's not that hard since so many men fall prey to unattractive women..why? That woman catered to his ego. Made him feel important,smart , RESPECTED AND ADMIRED. That's all she did really.
Women have always been strong but in there own way I still don't think they should try and be what men are I think they should be independent with work and help with kids and house but these days they want to be bosses and run big business and spend a lot of money on bags I think that's all wrong
Sido Salah you don’t want them to want to be successful in work? You just want them to be mothers and work for a little money? That’s stupid. What if they don’t want to have kids? What if they WANT to be successful in work places? What’s so wrong with that? Go fuck yourself.
Sido Salah My mother was in the army for 7 years AND she raised 2 children while my father was at the border patrol academy. All women are different some can handle stressful situation and some cannot.
mukesh choudhary right they won’t bc she was a black a woman and powerful amongst men but all genders were looked at as equal in Egypt they was ahead of time before America was damn shame women got to fight to be just as equal as a man but bc cleopatra was so power and came from Greece and took over Egypt because she from Greece she has to white not black like black ppl wasn’t in Greece too but they would never make a video bc they know what she was and how powerful she was you can’t worship a black powerful woman nonetheless a brown man with power only white ones that’s why Jesus is white and nothing else BOOM 💥 LOL
+Rebelkidd504 Will you stop being ridiculous. The only black people in Ancient Greece were slaves, merchants, and foreign dignitaries. You’re really going to use that as an excuse to make Kleopatra or any Greek ruler black? If Alux.com doesn’t make a video about Nefertiti, it has nothing to do with her skin color, whatever it was. Take your boom and lol somewhere else. Kleopatra wasn’t black so just deal with it.
Nothing? She kept Egypt independent from Roman rule for her entire reign and briefly regained former Ptolemaic territories. She also actively participated in the religious ceremonies of Egypt and the administration of the kingdom.
Her options of how to cement her power, alliances, and contacts were limited. Egypt was surrounded by Roman territories so what was she to do? Raise an army of misfits and untrained troops and fight a war she knew she would lose like some fantasy sympathetic hero?
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Wow, you guys are all so intelligent, it's too intimidating. You're so right the rest of humanity is below you guys. Honestly, use some critical thinking. Is Kim Kardashian a major political figure? Is she intelligent? Is she a strong leader? Did she bring 22 years of peace and prosperity to her country? No. Cleopatra isn't immortalized because she's beautiful, shes immortalized because she was a powerful leader. She wasn't actually all that pretty, either. But like they video said there are a lot of myths around her.
@@chrisspencer866 Lmao Greeks aren't Northern Europeans who will turn tomato mode when they will be exposed to them sun dumbfuck, Greeks back then were used in the heat because Greece is hot too.
#2 Technically her son Caesarion was the last pharaoh since he outlived her by a few days. #11 It was one pearl not a set of them. And you could have replaced one of these facts with the fact that Kleopatra was Macedonian-Greek mixed with Persian and was not Egyptian. But then again a growing number of people are already knowledgeable about that.
For all the afrocentrists saying she was black; she wasn't, as she was a member of the Ptolemy dynasty which was know for inbreeding. Therefore, she was Caucasian and not sub-saharan, like most of Egypt
I get so tired of people saying she was black. She was a PTOLEMY descended from one of Alexander the Greats generals. So actually she was GREEK! The PTOLEMY dynasty was the last to rule Egypt as Pharoahs! She was probably one of the most remarkable women who EVER lived! But Elizabeth Taylor always comes to mind when I think of her. Both ended up as legends!
The great scramble for Egypt. Blame your forefathers for the skewed propaganda. I agree Cleopatra wasn't black, but the earlier Pharaoh's definitely would have been.
But Egypt is in Africa and her mother was African , based on archeological research. Her father apparently was Greek. In those days you can’t be pale skin in such a hot climate. DNA doesn’t allow it.
For all the people debating about the race of egyptian rulers yes there were greek macedonian rulers as well as black pharoahs, egypt lasted 3 thousand years. Its stupid to think all people in egypt (including all its eras and regions) were one race
CLEOPATRA WAS NOT BLACK. JUST BECAUSE SHE RULED IN AFRICA DOES NOT MEAN SHE WAS BLACK? SHE WASNT EVEN EGYPTIAN. 1) SHE WAS GREEK. CAUCASIAN SKINTONE IS TAN, LIKE MIDDLE EASTERN TONES. 2) LITERALLY EGYPTIANS WERENT BLACK EITHER. TAN. THEY ARE MIDDLE EASTERN
12: You're missing the reason behind this point. She is actually of GREEK decent and the language of her scholars and inner court was Greek due to this. She spoke both Egyptian Arabic and Greek fluently and learned Roman and Nubian languages/dialects for political reasons.
@@jojosbizarrecomments you are right that she had greek heritage but she was born in egypt as was her father, and we dont know exactly who her mother was. depends if you consider peoples nationality by their own birthplace or their parents
@@jemimadawson2883 they didnt have nationality laws like we do now. Nationality was given on the basis of ethnicity. During the colonial rule in India lots of kids were born to British parents but they were not called Indians. Similarly a lot of muhgal rulers were born in India but they were called Muhgal invaders n were never considered Indian rulers
People who say Cleopatra is black need to remember that ruling dynasties all over history have often been from different people than their people. Alexander the Great was the one who built Alexandria, it is easily possible that at some point Pharaos were deposed and replaced by people from European ethnicity. And when royal family is known for inbreeding, you can guess the results. Also, anything that made Pharaos more different from their people would have been helpful in preserving their image as descendants of gods. All it takes is 2 white people as Pharaos and if they inbreed, they are going to stay white. Just because people are of ethnicity X does not mean their ruler is. Ottoman Empire also captured huge number of fair skinned women for their harems. These kind of things are not much talked today, but they have happened all over history. We know for certain that culturally, Cleopatra was hellenistic. And art can be quite meaningless, it has not been uncommon to make art about someone long after their death. And some art, such as white marble statues built by Romans, were once painted but have lost their color over time. Even if they would have been once painted in black, over time color would have changed. Sometimes we know what original color was, but it is not that easy to figure out.
People need to read more there was a Greek/ Macedonian upper class in Egypt ever since Alexander the Great took over and put Cleopatras family in power. To keep there bloodline pure they even inbred rather then having kids with the common Egyptians, they seriously valued there Mediterranean blood that’s why cleopatras name is even Greek. She wasn’t black , she was literally the product of colonization. Her family adopted the Egyptian gods and culture to appease the masses but they never integrated with them. Please don’t site the paintings as the fact that she was black, all those colors have oxidized and changed in the hundreds of years they’ve been aging in the heat. In South Africa there were black empires ruled by black people but in North Africa that died with Alexander the Great
@@barker940 ... There's actually were very impressive empires in Sub Sahara Africa. The Mali Empire was famous as a centre of learning and breathtaking architecture. I don't know why African Americans have this need to make fools of themselves by trying to attach themselves to history that has nothing to do with them when there is plenty of history that involves their ancestors in other places. Ironically, it's these same African Empires, like Mali, that captured and sold them into slavery in the first place.
I'm Egyptian, A COPTIC CHRISTIAN EGYPTIAN, I shout that out loud because we are the most pure blooded Egyptians out there and that's not only my opinion that's what Egyptologists, Historians and Scientists also agreed on , and I tell you that every word that Bassem Youssef said is right and I totally agree with him. Yes Egypt had lots of mixed cultures throughout its history like for example: Greeks, Romans and Arabs, but the Egyptian blood didn't mix and change that much and that's because for centuries we Egyptians had a golden tradition rule to marry our cousins, and that tradition is still present until now especially in Upper Egypt(from Assiut to Aswan), Although that tradition seems silly and bad from a scientific biological point of view, but that doesn't matter, silly or not we kept that tradition of marrying our cousins for centuries and that helped us to preserve our pure Egyptian blood not mixed as long as we could, and the result is what you see now and that is Modern Egyptians looks typical to their Ancient Egyptian Ancestors, just look at my skin color and Bassem Youssef's skin color we are almost the same although he is a Muslim who was born and lived in Cairo and I am a Coptic Christian who was born and lived in Luxor and there is almost a 1000 km distance between us, doesn't that tell you a thing or two about who Ancient Egyptians were and what they looked like? With all due respect for all the Black people and all the other ethnicities out there, but we Egyptians are special very special, WE ARE NOT Black or White or Yellow, Not Europeans or Africans or Asians, Not Assyrians or Persians or Israelites or Nubians or Greeks or Romans or Arabs or French or Italians or Germans or British or Turkish or Ukrainians, Not Middle Easterners or Caucasians or Mediterraneans or Levants or Amazigh or Berbers or even North Africans. WE ARE EGYPTIANS, WE ARE VERY UNIQUE!
Fun fact, black people in the comments claiming Cleopatra is black even though she's Greek and Persian. I think you guys are on about Queen Nerfertti (mind my spelling).
I believe thats whats going on. they are confusing Cleopatra with Nefertiti. Nefertiti was of true egyptian blood lineage and was not white, but Cleopatra is different story.
I find it humorous that people talk about ancient history like they were there. No one was there, so no one knows the truth. I'm sure people back in that era had poor hygiene. Remember everyone will have their own prospective on what happened.
Actually, the ancient Greeks and Romans bathed on a daily basis. Even the "barbaric" Celtic peoples washed themselves with soap, which they basically invented. For that matter, from surviving cosmetic records Cleopatra even recorded a recipe for making perfumed soap, among her more serious medical writings regarding standard weights in pharmacology. As for not living back then, that's true, but plenty of literature, art, and architecture survives.
Actually, back then personal cleanliness was very important. We know they took regular baths and spent a lot of time on hygiene. It was only after the fall of Rome that people became filthy. The Christian church had a lot to do with that saying that bathing was immoral and vain.
You may be sure, but you are not right. Greeks and Romans introduced the baths, fountains, aqueducts and sewage system not only in their lives but to all our civilization. Unfortunately, Christian popes destroyed that all and forced us to survive one thousand and five hundred years in dirt and illnesses.
Kohl isn't for directly treating infection but to prevent the possibility of infection and prevent eyes getting inflammation from all the sand. She is also believed to have been Egyptian/Greek and not a product of incest. Her beauty wasn't a myth and she dressed as a goddess because in Ancient Egypt pharaohs were thought to be descendants from the gods. She was murdered and all traces of her existence were meant to be destroyed or tempered. She was an excellent scientist and a multi talented individual that seemed like a threat that had to be removed. You're welcome. :)
She look like a decent woman to me. God is good but those women were drop dead gorgeous in their day. People can say what they want. That man Marc Anthony really loved her and not Julius. He was so racist to that lady. Calling her a who're in front of his wife and so forth. Praise the Lord she eventually found love before she died. Whoo that was some love story and tragedy.
from the comments, i understand most people here have no idea about history!!!!! they claim stupid things without arguments....i will response to those which claim she was black >if Cleopatra was black then our earth is flat.... : )
Jeez! I come strolling through the comment section and keep seeing the comment she’s black! Let’s clear some things up: 1.) doesn’t matter. She is an interesting woman. 2.) For those who want to ignore number one. She had Greek and Persian descent. Her skin color wasn’t that dark. 3.) We all have something called melanocytes in our body. They decide how much melanin we produce. (Melanin is one of the main factors that decides our skin color.) Each one has the genetic ability to produce any skin color in everyone, it just depends on the instructions it is given by DNA. So going back to number 1, skin color doesn’t matter.
It wasn't just the Romans who tainted her image. Most of the Greek writers were Roman puppets and ridiculed Cleopatra and her family mainly for being a woman. Strabo is very clear in his bias. Another strong critic is Josephus who mainly focuses on Herod the Jew who was bitter against Cleopatra for being subordinated by her. Even Plutarch never covered Cleopatra in spite of knowing so much about her. What we know about her is through his life of Antony and Caesar. In contrast, some of the Roman writers have covered the Ptolemies substantially and without prejudice instead of the Greeks.
Her family gave up the Greek traditions and became Egyptian to take over the thrown. Also she was tan and in the movies they make her look hot for $$$.
The Ptolemies did not give up their greek traditions and culture. The only Egyptian things they did were worshipping Egyptian gods along with their Hellenic ones and practice incest. They only did this to gain acceptance from the Egyptian populace.
Cleopatra was never in the heart of the battles... In Fact she ran away from a battle, the reason she lost the battle was because she decided to go against the experienced soldiers. They got massacred and she fled the battle. She was a great leader but this seems more like feminist propaganda than actual fact.
I believe it is thought that Cleopatra's mother was a Macedonian cortiasan not a sister of Ptolemy XII Auletes. The drinking club was created only after the Battle of Actium when it was felt or known they had no chance of winning a war with Octavian and Caesar was long dead. I think it is generally believed that she killed herself using a poison not an asp. Octavian wanted her in his triumph. She owned everything in Egypt for all tense and purposes. They were all divine.
We are not white , nor are we black, we are from North Africa, we are Egyptian simply, so this argument about wether Egyptians are white or black I find very strange. We are neither. We are Egyptian, come and visit
Sorry dear but this is def not about the people living in Egypt today... you have nothing in common with the people who lived there 3000 years ago. Check where you're coming from and when your ancestors arrived in Africa. No offense. Cleo by the way was greek so nothing in common as well with the kings of the earlier dynasties.
Cleopatra was a horrendous person. She murdered her young siblings; she sided with the enemy (Rome) against her siblings and her country of Egypt; she lost her country to Rome; AND she left her young children to the mercy of her mortal enemy. And that enemy, by the way? He killed three of her four children.
So if Kleopatra’s siblings murdered her they’re just innocent? And she didn’t side with the “enemy”, Ptolemy XIII and Arsinoe were not fighting for Egypt’s independence, it was for their own personal power and hold on the throne. Neither did Kleopatra side against her kingdom, she was fighting for her kingdom. Neither did she leave her children behind, as she was in no position to protect them nor had the power to protect them. My goodness do some learning.
Yes horrible misbehaved people make history, that is why all great people are also not so great individuals...thats what separates them from everyone else
okay. so this. this right here, just blew my mind. I TH-camd "Cleopatra because (sort of long story short) it is one of my great friend(from Cairo, Egypt)'s birthday this very day and I wanted to send her some sweet photos in Arabic for her Happy Birthday wishes, plus I wanted to snag a good photo from Google of Cleopatra because I love her, and Nefertiti. These powerful Egyptian, almost goddess like in character from history, have always been my inspiration. Some of the most fiercest women of all ancient time. So anyway. I saved the most killer photos of Cleopatra and moved on to the TH-cam search and found this gem. So, so oddly enough, even though I have idolized Cleopatra since a young age, I was not aware of the things I learned in this video til now! OMG! So curiously, as I was watching this video, every. single. thing. that Cleopatra was known for, or what she was passionate about was so me (for the exception of ownership of everything she had)! This woman right here had power in all the right places, like we are seeing women of this period having again! The Egyptian Women of history were to be revered. They had all the qualities and known reputations to have what us women today have. Which makes me wonder, why was there such a time gap between such ultimate power?! Some more recent monarchs that remind me of Cleopatra are: Marie Antoinette, and Elizabeth I. Anyone else have some other people that come to mind, or feedback such as this to the video?
+Kik lebravo There is no dna confirming that. Kleopatra was Macedonian Greek mixed with Persian. And despite what the person above states, Greeks weren’t black either.
She was the real mother of Jesus. Caesar's only Son. Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, better known by the nicknames Caesarion and Ptolemy Caesar, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt
Sonic Soundwaveus Enough with that brainless conspiracy theory. It holds no weight. Jesus wasn't even alive when Kleopatra and and Caesarion died. Caesarion was executed by Augustus shortly after his mother's death.
Fabian "before the Christ stuff happened"??? Lol No Christ stuff ever happened period!! Just the creation of the Myth itself.. In 325 a.d.. Please do better research... I don't have time to teach you about the origins of Soteriology, Serapis or the Septuagint.
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Alux.com she was alluring and seductive, despite not being classically beautiful.
"Egypt"...? formerly known as #Khemet... too much Sun there to believe that all that pale skin originated there. ...thinking about the passage in the book #GrowingUpX, where #Cleopatra is mentioned...in the same context as #MsLaurynHill...who sang/rapped "...more Power-Full than two Cleopatra's" ...
cites "...history told foul." ~ #Nas
Assassins creed origins 😂😂
She was a writer, brave, fashion designer, nearly a doctor, polyglot with 8 languages, charming, prodigy I mean I don't think she had to be more beautiful to manipulate men.
And the product of incest.
Ahaha
She was also a product of incest and she married her own brother
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@@camouflageartist8897 And they’re wrong.
I wish I could go back in time and witness all the famous historic events. 😣
me too
Rather than going to future dude... hell yeah!
best we can do is ask ubisoft to throw in another Assassins creed
You are in a historic event right now my brother.
@@d.k.6615 yes we are
Sister Cleopatra not just a slay queen but the first ever beuty guru
Non she was a slave anastly in his castle . And Egypt was his area too .
@@iramcollection5980 If you are using she then how could you use his
She was one of the greatest women in the whole multiverse
Greatest ? 🙄
Cleopatra was her intelligent and good at anything strategic. Therefore she became An expert on psychology of people minds. Therefore she knew how to control. Seducing was easy for her. No she wasn't a "classic " Beauty..she knew how to manipulate and get what she wanted. It's not that hard since so many men fall prey to unattractive women..why? That woman catered to his ego. Made him feel important,smart , RESPECTED AND ADMIRED. That's all she did really.
True
Women are strong Now.
Without having to be
Masculine. Or having to wear a power suit ✔️
Women have always been strong but in there own way I still don't think they should try and be what men are I think they should be independent with work and help with kids and house but these days they want to be bosses and run big business and spend a lot of money on bags I think that's all wrong
Sido Salah you don’t want them to want to be successful in work? You just want them to be mothers and work for a little money? That’s stupid. What if they don’t want to have kids? What if they WANT to be successful in work places? What’s so wrong with that? Go fuck yourself.
Lina Aviles if they don't want kids then work all they want in saying if there married with kids
Sido Salah A women can run a business if she has the skills too. And not every women has to have children in their life.
Sido Salah My mother was in the army for 7 years AND she raised 2 children while my father was at the border patrol academy. All women are different some can handle stressful situation and some cannot.
5:48 First time ever I came across a mis-speak in your videos.
5:50 You forgot to edit that out
Phil Mitchell I'm sorry, what did you say? I was busy editing.😌
Jordi7174 hahahaha I want you to know, I noticed you edited that comment lmfao :')
Noah Proulx 😂😂
I idolize her more than ANY women. She was a ruler, a Goddess figure, a women with power. I might even name my kid Cleo, because she's soo great!
Make video on nefertiti
YAH SHE WAS SWEET
YESSSS
oh u at work
mukesh choudhary right they won’t bc she was a black a woman and powerful amongst men but all genders were looked at as equal in Egypt they was ahead of time before America was damn shame women got to fight to be just as equal as a man but bc cleopatra was so power and came from Greece and took over Egypt because she from Greece she has to white not black like black ppl wasn’t in Greece too but they would never make a video bc they know what she was and how powerful she was you can’t worship a black powerful woman nonetheless a brown man with power only white ones that’s why Jesus is white and nothing else BOOM 💥 LOL
+Rebelkidd504 Will you stop being ridiculous. The only black people in Ancient Greece were slaves, merchants, and foreign dignitaries. You’re really going to use that as an excuse to make Kleopatra or any Greek ruler black? If Alux.com doesn’t make a video about Nefertiti, it has nothing to do with her skin color, whatever it was. Take your boom and lol somewhere else. Kleopatra wasn’t black so just deal with it.
I don't know why people have the need to argue the color she was, the point is she was a remarkable women. End of story.
Rin F. A remarkble women for what? Sleeping with powerful men? Lol she did nothing when she was a pharaoh
Nothing? She kept Egypt independent from Roman rule for her entire reign and briefly regained former Ptolemaic territories. She also actively participated in the religious ceremonies of Egypt and the administration of the kingdom.
Fabian Hale by sleeping with powerful men*
Her options of how to cement her power, alliances, and contacts were limited. Egypt was surrounded by Roman territories so what was she to do? Raise an army of misfits and untrained troops and fight a war she knew she would lose like some fantasy sympathetic hero?
Fabian Hale someones hurt
5:47 lazy editor
hahahahh yes
lol !!
Haha!!
Guess it's that time of the month
Hahahaha the irony
Come on bitch get it together, people watch these videos
Make a Video on Nefertiti to go with Cleopatra.
The amount of ignorant Afrocentrism in the comment section is ridiculous.
1) Being from Africa doesn't make you black. Africa has been and still is one of the most ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse places in the world.
2) Black Americans are mostly from West African decent and therefore have absolutely nothing to do with Egyptians regardless of skin tone. That's like a French person claiming Russian history because they are white or a Japanese person claiming Hindu culture because they are Asian.
Seleo Afou plus humans are originally from Africa from Russians to Chinese..
Seleo Afou **Let me educate u continental African man. 1.AFRIKA has & ALWAYS Will Be ""The Land of The Burnt Face People." & The Mother of All Civilization &Cultures. U can find every phenotype of Homo Sapiens in her countries. 2.Despite The Europeans forcefully infusing &imposing their genetic structure in2 our DNA during the slave trade &now thru miscegenation, THE CHINESE R GUILTY OF THAT AGENDA AS WELL), MaMa AFRIKA &ITS MAJORITY POPULATION REMAINS BLACK&BROWN IN COLOR, FROM ALGERIA TO ZIMBABWE &KWAZULU-LAND. THIS FACT CANNOT BE DISPUTED!! ETHNIC DIVERSITY DZ NOT NEGATE ONE'S COLOR, BUT LARGELY IS DEFINED BY IT. THEN CULTURE EVOLVES FROM ETHNICITY &NATIONALITY, NOT VICE VERSA!! IT IS SHAMEFUL THAT MAMA AFRIKA IS THE RICHEST CONTINENT ON THE PLANET, (SOUTH AMERICA IS PROBABLY 2ND. IRONICALLY, SO. AMER. WAS TORN AWAY. FROM AFRIKA OR GONDWANALAND, AFTER THE GREAT DELUGE, DURING THE CONTINENTAL DRIFT.), YET HER PEOPLE Hasn't Benefited FROM HER RESOURCES, BCZ OF PERSONAL & POLITICAL CORRUPTION, BREACH OF ETHICAL STANDARDS &INDIVIDUAL &CORPORATE GREED, RESULTING FROM COLLUSION WITH THE WEST, 2 HER OWN DEMISE &DETRIMENT!! HOW IMMORAL, IGNORANT &SELF-DEFEATING!!! WE'RE THE ONLY GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO GENUFLECT &GESTICULATE 4INDVDL AFFECTION &ATTENTION FROM WHITES &DISPLAY HATEFUL DEBAUCHERY &SADISTIC BHVR 2Our Own People. EVERY OTHER NATIONALITY IS FOCUSED ON Academic & Educational, achievements, SOCIOECONOMIC ADVANCES & CREATING LONG TERM BSNSS RELATIONSHIPS 2ENSURE PRODUCTIVITY ( IN THE FORM OF EMPLOYMNT...) &PROSPERITY. ALSO, BOLSTERING OF THE NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. THE WORLD AWAITS MAMA AFRIKA'S RE-AWAKENING, RESURRECTION &RESTORATION OF RIGHTEOUS DIVINE ORDER &RETURN 2PARADISE!! HALLELU Y H, AMEN!!
Amelia Van Der Veere and hopefully the re awakening of India..it was such as great country until British had to destroy it...
Amelia Van Der Veere and are you from Africa??
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..THE HYDRO POWER OF THE GREAT CONGO, EUPHRATES, NILE & ZAMBEZI RIVERS. YET, UR MAJORITY POPULATION R DIRT POOR? THAT, 2ME, IS AN INCONCEIVABLE, BLASPHEMOUS &CONTRADICTORY CONCEPT!! WE DIASPORAN AFRIKANS R WATCHING &WAITING 4THE FINAL REDEMPTION &RESURRECTION OF MAMA AFRIKA'S POWERFUL STOLEN LEGACY!! IT IS WRITTEN IN THE TIMELESS ANNALS OF DIVINE DESTINY: U CONTINENTAL AFRICANS BETTER PREPARE 4US, BCZ WHETHER U LIKE IT OR NOT, WE SHALL RETURN, EVEN THO' TOO MANY OF U REFUSE 2RECOGNIZE OUR LEGAL& LEGIT CLAIM 2OUR BIRTHRIGHT &ROYAL HERITAGE!! MOO' DOWN &ROLL OVER!! "GET READY, GET READY, GET READY, 'CZ DERE'S A TRAIN A-COMIN'..." IS U STILL CURIOUS 'BOUT MY COVETED "AFRIKAN-NESS"? DZ THE ABOVE TREATISE ANSWER UR QUERY SUFFICIENTLY -BRUH!?!
5:49 - coins surviving her period! Im dead Lmfao!😂😂😆😆😆
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'She was a brave'
APurny yes because she is incest
So annoying :p
She was brave
Atalissa Lobberecht ya she was brave by bathing in milk and clay everyday and never went out to battle
You are right
Someday, somebody is going to make a video of Kim Kardashian like this.. -__-
George Antony fuck i hope not. But i wouldnt be surprised given the decline of humanity's intellect. This makes me sad.
Kristopher Ryan agreed 🤮
totally agree 😂😂😂
Wow, you guys are all so intelligent, it's too intimidating. You're so right the rest of humanity is below you guys.
Honestly, use some critical thinking. Is Kim Kardashian a major political figure? Is she intelligent? Is she a strong leader? Did she bring 22 years of peace and prosperity to her country? No.
Cleopatra isn't immortalized because she's beautiful, shes immortalized because she was a powerful leader. She wasn't actually all that pretty, either. But like they video said there are a lot of myths around her.
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Why did this make me admire her ever more? I’m thinking of being her for Halloween this year
Cleopatra did not play!
Do the Queen of Sheba next!!
She was a myth. She never existed!
Actually she wasn't that beautiful, just seductive
i think she is manipulating like queen margaery in Game of Thrones
Giovanna PJT agree
Lala Bones yasssss
Cleopatra was more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor .
swarna mohanty Nefertiti was prettier than Cleopatra
All these comments saying Cleopatra was black, no she wasn't. She was Greek under the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Max The Great STOP LYING COLONIZER
HOW DID WHITES SURVIVE AFRICAN HEAT WITHOUT SUNCREEN
chris spencer stupid black panther reference
chris spencer because they stay indoors and wear special outfits and stuff, it's not hard to figure out
@@chrisspencer866 Lmao Greeks aren't Northern Europeans who will turn tomato mode when they will be exposed to them sun dumbfuck, Greeks back then were used in the heat because Greece is hot too.
I needed this im studying Cleopatra for school
#2 Technically her son Caesarion was the last pharaoh since he outlived her by a few days. #11 It was one pearl not a set of them. And you could have replaced one of these facts with the fact that Kleopatra was Macedonian-Greek mixed with Persian and was not Egyptian. But then again a growing number of people are already knowledgeable about that.
For all the afrocentrists saying she was black; she wasn't, as she was a member of the Ptolemy dynasty which was know for inbreeding. Therefore, she was Caucasian and not sub-saharan, like most of Egypt
Thomas Ptolemy dynasty was black like the Greeks back then
+jk No they weren’t.
16. She was Greek
Kleopatra wasn’t black.
2:02
With red hair.
I think a Roman soldier killed her but they didn't want to take the credit
G K Assassins live in the shadows. Imagine coming out and saying you killed a Pharaoh, you'd be killed yourself.
I get so tired of people saying she was black. She was a PTOLEMY descended from one of Alexander the Greats generals. So actually she was GREEK! The PTOLEMY dynasty was the last to rule Egypt as Pharoahs! She was probably one of the most remarkable women who EVER lived! But Elizabeth Taylor always comes to mind when I think of her. Both ended up as legends!
Alexander the Great was black man, the Ptolemy dynasty were black and the Greeks were black. She definitely were black woman.
+jk None of those people were black.
The great scramble for Egypt. Blame your forefathers for the skewed propaganda. I agree Cleopatra wasn't black, but the earlier Pharaoh's definitely would have been.
But Egypt is in Africa and her mother was African , based on archeological research. Her father apparently was Greek. In those days you can’t be pale skin in such a hot climate. DNA doesn’t allow it.
@@arlenewallace8118 Kleopatra’s mother wasn’t African. Nothing suggests otherwise.Her parents were uncle and niece.
Makeup with medical benefits that’s interesting to know.
I also got to know that she used lipstick by killing a bug.... 😱😱
Lipstick is still made like that only
Scarabs still are use for the red dye in cosmetics today.
Maybe so much mystery and uncertainties make her more interesting figure, she still was amazing and strong woman.
For all the people debating about the race of egyptian rulers yes there were greek macedonian rulers as well as black pharoahs, egypt lasted 3 thousand years. Its stupid to think all people in egypt (including all its eras and regions) were one race
No they weren’t.
+Ugly Ass Mofo We're not arguing about the Egyptian rulers, we're specifically talking about Cleopatra.
CLEOPATRA WAS NOT BLACK. JUST BECAUSE SHE RULED IN AFRICA DOES NOT MEAN SHE WAS BLACK? SHE WASNT EVEN EGYPTIAN. 1) SHE WAS GREEK. CAUCASIAN SKINTONE IS TAN, LIKE MIDDLE EASTERN TONES. 2) LITERALLY EGYPTIANS WERENT BLACK EITHER. TAN. THEY ARE MIDDLE EASTERN
why are you yelling?
AMEN, Bruh!!
She probably was olive skinned or tanned at least considering the weather in Egypt
Greeks were black back then
j k are you fucking dumb
I love Cleopatra!😍😚😙😘
12: You're missing the reason behind this point. She is actually of GREEK decent and the language of her scholars and inner court was Greek due to this. She spoke both Egyptian Arabic and Greek fluently and learned Roman and Nubian languages/dialects for political reasons.
She was my kinda girl....
everyone, she wasn't black. she was greek, which is why she wasn't black
Edit: I'm surprised people that don't know history didn't rage at me
she was egyptian? but yeah most likely white
+Nasia That video proves nothing. Kleopatra’s parents were Macedonians and not black.
@@jemimadawson2883 no. Her parents were greek
@@jojosbizarrecomments you are right that she had greek heritage but she was born in egypt as was her father, and we dont know exactly who her mother was. depends if you consider peoples nationality by their own birthplace or their parents
@@jemimadawson2883 they didnt have nationality laws like we do now. Nationality was given on the basis of ethnicity. During the colonial rule in India lots of kids were born to British parents but they were not called Indians. Similarly a lot of muhgal rulers were born in India but they were called Muhgal invaders n were never considered Indian rulers
Beauty is never define just with physical appereance as actually truly intelligent woman really is beautiful)))
People who say Cleopatra is black need to remember that ruling dynasties all over history have often been from different people than their people. Alexander the Great was the one who built Alexandria, it is easily possible that at some point Pharaos were deposed and replaced by people from European ethnicity. And when royal family is known for inbreeding, you can guess the results.
Also, anything that made Pharaos more different from their people would have been helpful in preserving their image as descendants of gods.
All it takes is 2 white people as Pharaos and if they inbreed, they are going to stay white.
Just because people are of ethnicity X does not mean their ruler is. Ottoman Empire also captured huge number of fair skinned women for their harems. These kind of things are not much talked today, but they have happened all over history.
We know for certain that culturally, Cleopatra was hellenistic.
And art can be quite meaningless, it has not been uncommon to make art about someone long after their death. And some art, such as white marble statues built by Romans, were once painted but have lost their color over time. Even if they would have been once painted in black, over time color would have changed. Sometimes we know what original color was, but it is not that easy to figure out.
TheRomanRuler There were no native pharaohs when Alexander took Egypt, just Persian satraps. So he didn't depose any pharaohs.
Dude she was black.
+Enin Washington No she wasn’t.
Fabian Hale Yeah she was black.
Fabian Hale Yeah, she was black. White ppl just trying to whitify everything. She was black, get over it.
People need to read more there was a Greek/ Macedonian upper class in Egypt ever since Alexander the Great took over and put Cleopatras family in power. To keep there bloodline pure they even inbred rather then having kids with the common Egyptians, they seriously valued there Mediterranean blood that’s why cleopatras name is even Greek. She wasn’t black , she was literally the product of colonization. Her family adopted the Egyptian gods and culture to appease the masses but they never integrated with them. Please don’t site the paintings as the fact that she was black, all those colors have oxidized and changed in the hundreds of years they’ve been aging in the heat. In South Africa there were black empires ruled by black people but in North Africa that died with Alexander the Great
Glazed Donut Queen Greeks were black back then
I agree with everything you say except the part about black empires. Mud huts and spears do not make an empire!
@@jk8557 ... lmao...then why did the Greeks call black people "if burned face".
@@barker940 ... There's actually were very impressive empires in Sub Sahara Africa. The Mali Empire was famous as a centre of learning and breathtaking architecture. I don't know why African Americans have this need to make fools of themselves by trying to attach themselves to history that has nothing to do with them when there is plenty of history that involves their ancestors in other places.
Ironically, it's these same African Empires, like Mali, that captured and sold them into slavery in the first place.
Because they were even darker than Greeks themselves.
Great Information love the video Cleopatra is beautiful
I love ancent egypt!😍
Thx ❤️
I'm Egyptian, A COPTIC CHRISTIAN EGYPTIAN, I shout that out loud because we are the most pure blooded Egyptians out there and that's not only my opinion that's what Egyptologists, Historians and Scientists also agreed on , and I tell you that every word that Bassem Youssef said is right and I totally agree with him.
Yes Egypt had lots of mixed cultures throughout its history like for example: Greeks, Romans and Arabs, but the Egyptian blood didn't mix and change that much and that's because for centuries we Egyptians had a golden tradition rule to marry our cousins, and that tradition is still present until now especially in Upper Egypt(from Assiut to Aswan), Although that tradition seems silly and bad from a scientific biological point of view, but that doesn't matter, silly or not we kept that tradition of marrying our cousins for centuries and that helped us to preserve our pure Egyptian blood not mixed as long as we could, and the result is what you see now and that is Modern Egyptians looks typical to their Ancient Egyptian Ancestors, just look at my skin color and Bassem Youssef's skin color we are almost the same although he is a Muslim who was born and lived in Cairo and I am a Coptic Christian who was born and lived in Luxor and there is almost a 1000 km distance between us, doesn't that tell you a thing or two about who Ancient Egyptians were and what they looked like?
With all due respect for all the Black people and all the other ethnicities out there, but we Egyptians are special very special, WE ARE NOT Black or White or Yellow, Not Europeans or Africans or Asians, Not Assyrians or Persians or Israelites or Nubians or Greeks or Romans or Arabs or French or Italians or Germans or British or Turkish or Ukrainians, Not Middle Easterners or Caucasians or Mediterraneans or Levants or Amazigh or Berbers or even North Africans.
WE ARE
EGYPTIANS,
WE ARE
VERY UNIQUE!
Hi !
Thanks for making this video .
Can you make a video on songs .
Music industry.
i know that the past is very hard to live in but i wish that one day i could time travel back to the past..
Fun fact, black people in the comments claiming Cleopatra is black even though she's Greek and Persian. I think you guys are on about Queen Nerfertti (mind my spelling).
Nefertiti*
U sound stupid as u write
@@dariennekabengele9277 He's right. I'm black and saying Cleopatra wasn't black.
but the rest of statues faces are from black
I believe thats whats going on. they are confusing Cleopatra with Nefertiti. Nefertiti was of true egyptian blood lineage and was not white, but Cleopatra is different story.
I Effin love her 😩❤️❤️❤️
I find it humorous that people talk about ancient history like they were there. No one was there, so no one knows the truth. I'm sure people back in that era had poor hygiene. Remember everyone will have their own prospective on what happened.
Actually, the ancient Greeks and Romans bathed on a daily basis. Even the "barbaric" Celtic peoples washed themselves with soap, which they basically invented. For that matter, from surviving cosmetic records Cleopatra even recorded a recipe for making perfumed soap, among her more serious medical writings regarding standard weights in pharmacology. As for not living back then, that's true, but plenty of literature, art, and architecture survives.
Not true. Anicent Romans and Greeks were into bathing.
Actually, back then personal cleanliness was very important. We know they took regular baths and spent a lot of time on hygiene. It was only after the fall of Rome that people became filthy. The Christian church had a lot to do with that saying that bathing was immoral and vain.
You may be sure, but you are not right. Greeks and Romans introduced the baths, fountains, aqueducts and sewage system not only in their lives but to all our civilization. Unfortunately, Christian popes destroyed that all and forced us to survive one thousand and five hundred years in dirt and illnesses.
Actually they had internet back then and created yt videos about them
Kohl isn't for directly treating infection but to prevent the possibility of infection and prevent eyes getting inflammation from all the sand. She is also believed to have been Egyptian/Greek and not a product of incest. Her beauty wasn't a myth and she dressed as a goddess because in Ancient Egypt pharaohs were thought to be descendants from the gods. She was murdered and all traces of her existence were meant to be destroyed or tempered. She was an excellent scientist and a multi talented individual that seemed like a threat that had to be removed. You're welcome. :)
Kleopatra was a product of incest. Don’t you know about the Ptolemies? And she wasn’t Egyptian neither is there proof she was murdered.
Truly a role model to me...
For some reason I feel a connection with Cleopatra. Love everything about her.
She look like a decent woman to me. God is good but those women were drop dead gorgeous in their day. People can say what they want. That man Marc Anthony really loved her and not Julius. He was so racist to that lady. Calling her a who're in front of his wife and so forth. Praise the Lord she eventually found love before she died. Whoo that was some love story and tragedy.
Caesar was not racist to Kleopatra neither did he ever call her a whore.
Thankyou so much I needed this for school
She is remarkable
15 Things You Didn't Know About Cleopatra:
"She was brave."
from the comments, i understand most people here have no idea about history!!!!! they claim stupid things without arguments....i will response to those which claim she was black >if Cleopatra was black then our earth is flat.... : )
My gut feeling says sometime in future people will make a video of Diana Spencer - History repeats
what were the hairloss remedies?
helped me with my social studies project! thankss
Did anyone else come here because of Assassin's Creed Origins?
well you caught me.
Fuck yeah bro.
You said we don't know how she looked like (which is true), but how do we then know she wore those things around her eyes.
Actually sources differ on her beauty, she was super charming but some sources say she was pretty plane
Why do you think people are still talking about her?
With the rise in interest on the topic of seduction especially R.Greene's book referencing cleopatra the spot lights been recast her way
That's what my mom made me be for Halloween and I'm wearing the costume right now for no reason
Um Cleopatra was from ancient Greek
baby remix amiyah ja'va and ancient Greeks were black back then
No they weren’t.
Fabian Hale yes she was go do your research✌
+baby remix It wasn’t you I was referring to.
Jeez! I come strolling through the comment section and keep seeing the comment she’s black! Let’s clear some things up:
1.) doesn’t matter. She is an interesting woman.
2.) For those who want to ignore number one. She had Greek and Persian descent. Her skin color wasn’t that dark.
3.) We all have something called melanocytes in our body. They decide how much melanin we produce. (Melanin is one of the main factors that decides our skin color.) Each one has the genetic ability to produce any skin color in everyone, it just depends on the instructions it is given by DNA. So going back to number 1, skin color doesn’t matter.
She came in my dreams....😂😂 And i really enjoyed her company...lol..
PRANAV N. And I walked in and we DP, DAP and DVP her
Ahaha
Im sure shed be Happy to make you happy
It wasn't just the Romans who tainted her image. Most of the Greek writers were Roman puppets and ridiculed Cleopatra and her family mainly for being a woman. Strabo is very clear in his bias. Another strong critic is Josephus who mainly focuses on Herod the Jew who was bitter against Cleopatra for being subordinated by her. Even Plutarch never covered Cleopatra in spite of knowing so much about her. What we know about her is through his life of Antony and Caesar. In contrast, some of the Roman writers have covered the Ptolemies substantially and without prejudice instead of the Greeks.
Don't suppose any roman general would notice average looking woman would they???
Thanks alux love you 😍
You're welcome!
oh she was Greek that is why she is white in movies I have always wondered that, thank you alux.
You're welcome.
+ SA No she wasn't.
Her family gave up the Greek traditions and became Egyptian to take over the thrown. Also she was tan and in the movies they make her look hot for $$$.
The Ptolemies did not give up their greek traditions and culture. The only Egyptian things they did were worshipping Egyptian gods along with their Hellenic ones and practice incest. They only did this to gain acceptance from the Egyptian populace.
Fabian Hale she had to give up Greek traditions to become pharaoh.
Thanks 4 sharing
I can’t be the other one who clicked on this video because of Assassin’s Creed Origins
Will Siwa never know peace?
Amazing information
she also MURDERED her little brother co-Pharaoh, to make her own son a potential future Pharaoh.or strenghten her own power.
Make a list of 15 things to know about Carl Zeiss. Thank you
Cleopatra was never in the heart of the battles... In Fact she ran away from a battle, the reason she lost the battle was because she decided to go against the experienced soldiers. They got massacred and she fled the battle. She was a great leader but this seems more like feminist propaganda than actual fact.
She ran from one battle because their fleet was in no condition to fight at the battle of actium. It had nothing to do with experience.
Good clips ,
I believe it is thought that Cleopatra's mother was a Macedonian cortiasan not a sister of Ptolemy XII Auletes. The drinking club was created only after the Battle of Actium when it was felt or known they had no chance of winning a war with Octavian and Caesar was long dead. I think it is generally believed that she killed herself using a poison not an asp. Octavian wanted her in his triumph. She owned everything in Egypt for all tense and purposes. They were all divine.
she was not a pharaoh she belongs to Greek family
And yet the Ptolemies were pharaohs.
Yes she was greek but she was born in egypt so she was egyptian too
Jeeze, so many experts with no credentials!
Pause at 0:43, the guy behind Cleopatra looks like Channing Tatum 😂😂😂😂
She actually wasnt that conventionally beautuful...but intelligent,clever, and charismatic
Cleopatra is from the Virgin Mary the Queen. She is Queen of Egypt 🇪🇬. We Queen's are Immortal
In one of my past lifes i was her friend she was cool
Austin Brown ;)
U drunk
Nice joke
How high are you?
Well Moses was my best friend back in the day. Everything he did with God's help really happened.
i love your intro
We are not white , nor are we black, we are from North Africa, we are Egyptian simply, so this argument about wether Egyptians are white or black I find very strange. We are neither. We are Egyptian, come and visit
problem is cleopatra was not egyptian...
Your people aren't the original natives! They were black!
Tony Tone A Tru dat, mi bredren!!
Sorry dear but this is def not about the people living in Egypt today... you have nothing in common with the people who lived there 3000 years ago. Check where you're coming from and when your ancestors arrived in Africa. No offense. Cleo by the way was greek so nothing in common as well with the kings of the earlier dynasties.
@@yvonnemartine9408 modern Egyptians are still Egyptian.
Cleopatra was a horrendous person. She murdered her young siblings; she sided with the enemy (Rome) against her siblings and her country of Egypt; she lost her country to Rome; AND she left her young children to the mercy of her mortal enemy. And that enemy, by the way? He killed three of her four children.
So if Kleopatra’s siblings murdered her they’re just innocent? And she didn’t side with the “enemy”, Ptolemy XIII and Arsinoe were not fighting for Egypt’s independence, it was for their own personal power and hold on the throne. Neither did Kleopatra side against her kingdom, she was fighting for her kingdom. Neither did she leave her children behind, as she was in no position to protect them nor had the power to protect them. My goodness do some learning.
Yes horrible misbehaved people make history, that is why all great people are also not so great individuals...thats what separates them from everyone else
Fall in love with this woman
okay. so this. this right here, just blew my mind. I TH-camd "Cleopatra because (sort of long story short) it is one of my great friend(from Cairo, Egypt)'s birthday this very day and I wanted to send her some sweet photos in Arabic for her Happy Birthday wishes, plus I wanted to snag a good photo from Google of Cleopatra because I love her, and Nefertiti. These powerful Egyptian, almost goddess like in character from history, have always been my inspiration. Some of the most fiercest women of all ancient time. So anyway. I saved the most killer photos of Cleopatra and moved on to the TH-cam search and found this gem. So, so oddly enough, even though I have idolized Cleopatra since a young age, I was not aware of the things I learned in this video til now! OMG! So curiously, as I was watching this video, every. single. thing. that Cleopatra was known for, or what she was passionate about was so me (for the exception of ownership of everything she had)! This woman right here had power in all the right places, like we are seeing women of this period having again! The Egyptian Women of history were to be revered. They had all the qualities and known reputations to have what us women today have. Which makes me wonder, why was there such a time gap between such ultimate power?! Some more recent monarchs that remind me of Cleopatra are: Marie Antoinette, and Elizabeth I. Anyone else have some other people that come to mind, or feedback such as this to the video?
She was not black. She was a Greek woman. Stop trying to claim other peoples culture lmao
haha It's a hard one to take for the afro-centrists when they find out Cleopatra was white...They want her so bad!!! lol
Greeks were black back then
Fuck u the DNA showed that she was full black and Nubian Queen go google it stupid
+Kik lebravo There is no dna confirming that. Kleopatra was Macedonian Greek mixed with Persian. And despite what the person above states, Greeks weren’t black either.
Please make a video of 15 things about Ed Sheeran, Stephen Curry, Manny Pacquiao, Bruno Mars and Tom Brady
Do a 15 Things You Didn't Know Me Alux ?
I Like this tiktok video it was awesome and cool faolobius
. Cleopatra was GREEK. She was not Egyptian.
Don't know if it is 100% true or not but i gotta say if it is true then damn she hella cool.
"She was the reincarnation of Isis"
Me: SHE WAS A TERRORIST?!?!
Ashu Prak its something called a joke u Neanderthal
Redskinsman10 that is a god ;-;
Edit: ok nvm
CLEOPATRA now take selfies
She was the real mother of Jesus. Caesar's only Son. Ptolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, better known by the nicknames Caesarion and Ptolemy Caesar, was the last Pharaoh of Egypt
Sonic Soundwaveus Enough with that brainless conspiracy theory. It holds no weight. Jesus wasn't even alive when Kleopatra and and Caesarion died. Caesarion was executed by Augustus shortly after his mother's death.
Fabian The biblical Christ is not real
Caesarion still died before any Christ stuff happened.
Fabian "before the Christ stuff happened"??? Lol No Christ stuff ever happened period!! Just the creation of the Myth itself.. In 325 a.d.. Please do better research... I don't have time to teach you about the origins of Soteriology, Serapis or the Septuagint.
I'm just saying Caesarion is not the inspiration for Jesus.
I heard a mistake on the coins part she was like “coins surviving her peri”
Cleopatra was a white Macedonian Greek with red hair.