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After Alexander died, a general named Ptolemy took over as king.

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His general Ptolemy, who was governor of Egypt for Alexander, turned Egypt into a kingdom of his own after the death of Alexander the Great.

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When Alexander the great died who was given Macedonia and Greece to rule?

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Cleopatra was a real live woman and queen of Egypt. She was the last in the line of the Ptolmeys. General Ptolmey served in the Greek army of Alexander the Great and when Alexander the Great died, he became King of Egypt. Caesar Augustus killed her husband, Marc Anthony. She supposedly died by a snake bite.


What day did Alexander the great die?

Alexander the great died June 13, 323 B.C.


How did Alexander The Great find the city Alexandria?

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