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    Default Re: "Tomb of Cleopatra found"

    I would not be to pedantic about that. Yes, she was from makedonian ancestry but that has been some generations ago and afaik the ptolemies didn't need long to adapt some native cultural aspects to support the claim to the pharao's throne (e.g. being devine and thus only able to reproduce with other devines; some incest anyone?), so i have no problem to call her an egyptian.
    Actually, since they were "incestuous", they continued a fullblood Makedonike line, so that would make her a Macedonian. As for the taking in of native aspects, I'm not really sure about that (except for the Pharaohs being divine and all).

    U are way to good at english to be a 15 year old Dutch kid, no offence though.
    Actually, I'm a 42 year old paedophile, heh heh.
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    Oh in that case, wanna meet irl? U said u live in Driebergen so I can be at your house in 20 minutes. I'll be wearing socks and nothing else, see u then hun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hax
    Actually, since they were "incestuous", they continued a fullblood Makedonike line, so that would make her a Macedonian.
    Well, of course, but that is a matter of criteria. I'd bet you can find people in the USA whose family lives there for centuries and who are still, for example, fullblood irish or spanish or italian or whatever. Does this make them Irish or American or perhaps both? Or from the EB-timeframe: is a man, whose family lived in, for example, Tarentinum and whose ancestors all were greeks, and who is born with roman citizenship a Roman, a Greek or maybe both?
    So, as i said before, i'm not so pedantic with things like that as it depends on how you rate the circumstances. For me, Cleopatra is Makedon in some way and Egyptian in another. At least her ancestors lived in egypt for generations and there has to be a point where you are no foreigner anymore, don't you think ;)
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