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Cleopatra

69 BCE – 30 BCE · 39 years

The true story of history's most misunderstood queen — polyglot, strategist, and the last ruler of a three-thousand-year civilization.

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Landmark

Charyn Canyon

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Scythians

Attested 400 BCE – 100 CE

Trade route

Silk Road Southern Branch

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Figure · Rome

Cicero

106 BCE – 43 BCE

Landmark

Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity

Finno-Ugric taiga hunter-gatherers

Attested 2000 BCE – 1200 CE

Figure · Rome

Julius Caesar

100 BCE – 44 BCE

Landmark

Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 69 BCE and 30 BCE.

58 BCE Gallic Wars 57 BCE Gyeongju Historic Areas 53 BCE Roman–Parthian Wars 49 BCE Caesar's Civil War 44 BCE Final War of the Roman Republic 37 BCE Masada

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Delos Landmark · Europe 3000 BCE – 69 BCE Seleucid Kingdom Polity · Middle East 311 BCE – 62 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Roman–Numidian Wars Conflict · Europe 206 BCE – 46 BCE Gyeongju Historic Areas Landmark · East Asia 57 BCE – 935 CE Dacia Polity · Europe 59 BCE – 106 CE

Alive at the same time

Overlap Same years; not influence

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