She couldn't have been because she was a racist . However , It is possible she linked up with the Mongolian lives matter violent Marxist movement and denounced her own flesh and blood and started hating herself .
Nope. She was very near pure Greek Makedonian. While there is some uncertainty about her mother's identity the possibility that her lineage was outside the Ptolemaic noble family is highly unlikely. The Ptolemies were well known to marry exclusively in the same gene pool, often resulting in cousins and even siblings marrying. Kleopatra VII herself was married to both of her younger brothers. Indeed, it's this practice of interbreeding and repeated names (there were a dozen monarchs named Ptolemaios) that is the cause of Kleopatra VII's mother's hazy identity. She may have been Kleopatra VI or V, or both at once.
The idea that she had any native Egyptian blood is extremely tenuous. In fact the only known non-Hellenic genes that made it into the Ptolemaic royal line was early on from the queen Berenike II whose great-grandmother was ethnically Sogdian(i.e. east Iranian). This was about 250 years before Kleopatra VII's time and so many generations back to be genetically nugatory.
As for the possibility that the Ptolemies had any contact, let alone pedigree, with the (proto-)Mongolians is laughable.
If Mongols even existed during her lifetime, they were a minor, migratory tribe north of China. Cleopatra's ancestry derived from Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt.
Note that Macedonia is in the northern part of Greece (though part has recently become a separate country called Northern Macedonia). It is the part where Alexander the Great came from.
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She couldn't have been because she was a racist . However , It is possible she linked up with the Mongolian lives matter violent Marxist movement and denounced her own flesh and blood and started hating herself .
Damn! That's a rewrite of history if I ever read one. No, dear. Cleo was a Greek. Ruler of the Southern Empire. Google her.
Yes. Most Greeks are.
No. Macedonian not Mongolian.
Nope. She was very near pure Greek Makedonian. While there is some uncertainty about her mother's identity the possibility that her lineage was outside the Ptolemaic noble family is highly unlikely. The Ptolemies were well known to marry exclusively in the same gene pool, often resulting in cousins and even siblings marrying. Kleopatra VII herself was married to both of her younger brothers. Indeed, it's this practice of interbreeding and repeated names (there were a dozen monarchs named Ptolemaios) that is the cause of Kleopatra VII's mother's hazy identity. She may have been Kleopatra VI or V, or both at once.
The idea that she had any native Egyptian blood is extremely tenuous. In fact the only known non-Hellenic genes that made it into the Ptolemaic royal line was early on from the queen Berenike II whose great-grandmother was ethnically Sogdian(i.e. east Iranian). This was about 250 years before Kleopatra VII's time and so many generations back to be genetically nugatory.
As for the possibility that the Ptolemies had any contact, let alone pedigree, with the (proto-)Mongolians is laughable.
No, her father was Macedonian and her mother was Egyptian.
Pretty obviously not.
If Mongols even existed during her lifetime, they were a minor, migratory tribe north of China. Cleopatra's ancestry derived from Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt.
Note that Macedonia is in the northern part of Greece (though part has recently become a separate country called Northern Macedonia). It is the part where Alexander the Great came from.
Macedonian, not Mongolian.