Capitolo 14
the time of Cleopatra, Alexander the Gran, when he overturned the
Persian empire, taken possession of Egypt and the attached ones among the,
other Persian provinces, to his/her his/her own dominoes. To the division of
Alexander's empire, after his/her death that Egypt has demolished to one of his/her generals,
Called Ptolemy. Ptolemy manufactured him his/her kingdom, and he/she left him/it to his/her death,,
to his/her heirs. A long line of sovereigns succeeded him/it, known in history
as the dynasty of the Ptolemies--Greek principles, reigning on a
Egyptian kingdom. Cleopatra was the daughter of the eleventh in the line.
The capital of the Ptolemies was Alexandria. Up to the duration of
Alexander's conquest, Egypt had not sea-handed. There was a lot
unloading-places along the coast, but nothing I bring correct. In fact Egypt had
then commercial relationships so small with the rest of the world that
she had need as soon as of some. However, Alexander's engineers in to explore
the beach, doesn't find far a point from the mouth of Canopic of the Nile
where water was deep, and where an earth of anchorage there was
protected by an island. Alexander founded there a city, what he called
from his/her his/her own name. He improved the I bring from artificial excavations and
embankments. A tall light-house was reared from which it formed a miliary stone
day, and it had been exhibiting an ardent star for night to drive the helmets of the
Mediterranean in. A channel was made for connecting the I bring with the Nile,
and shops to the wholesale one were erect to contain the shops of commodity. In a
puts in words, Alexandria immediately became a great commercial capital. It was the
makes to sit, for many centuries, of the magnificent government of the
Ptolemies; and so well it was his/her chosen of situation for the purposes
deliberate, that still continuous, after the error of twenty centuries
of revolution and it changes, one of the principal emporiums of the commerce
of the east.
I CAPITULATE II.