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No, and sort of yes.
This is a simplistic treatment. Geographically speaking, Egypt and Greece are separated by the Mediterranean Sea. Culturally, they are different, but share some of the same roots. Historically, they are even more connected: Egypt was the southern portion of the empire Alexander of Macedonia conquered. After his death, succession was juggled a bit, but settled into four empires: Ptolemaic Egypt under Alexander's former general Ptolemy I Soter, the Near Eastern Seleucid Empire of Seleucus I Nicator (General of Alexander's infantry), the city of Pergamom ruled by Lysimachus, and finally the Antigonid Dynasty ruled first by Antigonus I Monophthalmus over Asia Minor and northern Syria. Alexander's conquest of Egypt brought Greek and Egyptian culture together, essentially merging the two in the latter centuries before the rise of the Roman Empire.

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