Editing Ptolemaic Kingdom

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{{Regime Infobox
|title1 = 
|image1 = ACO Ptolemaic Kingdom Banner.png
|caption1 = 
|capital = [[Alexandria]]<ref name="ACO">''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''</ref>
|government = [[Monarchy]]
|executive = Pharaoh
|legislature = 
|military = [[Ptolemaic army]]
|affiliation = [[Order of the Ancients]]
|nation = [[Greece|Hellenic]] [[Egypt]]
|languages = {{wiki|Koine Greek|Greek}} {{c|official}}<br>{{wiki|Egyptian language|Egyptian}} {{c|common}}
|religion = {{wiki|Hellenistic religion}}<br>{{wiki|Ancient Egyptian religion|Egyptian religion}}
|demonym = 
|major_cities = [[Bubastis]]<br>[[Heliopolis]]<br>[[Hermopolis]]<br>[[Krokodilopolis]]<br>[[Letopolis]]<br>[[Memphis]]
|population = 
|currency = [[Drachma]]
|founder(s) = [[Ptolemy I Soter]]
|date_founded = 305 BCE
|date_dissolved = 30 BCE
|last_ruler = [[Cleopatra|Cleopatra VII]]
}}
The '''Ptolemaic Kingdom''' (305 BCE– 30 BCE) was a [[Greece|Hellenistic]] kingdom based in ancient [[Egypt]] during the late 1st millennium BCE. Named after the Ptolemaic dynasty which governed it, it was founded by [[Ptolemy I Soter]], a [[Makedonia|Macedonian]] general who followed [[Alexander the Great]]–in 305 BCE, following the fragmentation of Alexander's {{wiki|Macedonian Empire}}.

Socially, the kingdom was rife with perpetual ethnic conflict between the native Egyptians and the Greek elites. Although the country initially saw great cultural and intellectual prosperity in its early years, establishing the [[Library of Alexandria|Great Library]] and erecting the [[Lighthouse of Alexandria]], it suffered a precipitous decline in stability and fortunes from the late 3rd century BCE onward. By the 1st century BCE, it held an unsavoury reputation as a failed state that gradually subsumed under the rising power of the Romans.<ref name="ACO" />

This predicament was not helped by the conspiracies of the [[Order of the Ancients]], a predecessor of the [[Templars|Templar Order]] founded by the pharaoh [[Smenkhkare]] of the {{wiki|Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt|Eighteenth Dynasty}}. In 30 BCE, the kingdom eventually fell to the future [[Roman Empire]] when [[Augustus|Octavian]], leader of the Order of the Ancients, defeated his rival [[Marcus Antonius]] and his lover, [[Cleopatra]].<ref name="ACO" />

One of the greatest legacies of the Ptolemaic period is the birth of the [[Hidden Ones]], an antecedent to the [[Assassins|Assassin Brotherhood]], which sprang from the efforts of the last [[Medjay]], [[Bayek|Bayek of Siwa]] and [[Amunet|Aya of Alexandria]], to combat the Order of the Ancients and save their country.<ref name="ACO" />

==Gallery==
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ACO Alexandria.png|Alexandria, the kingdom's capital
ACO Painted Egypt map.png|A painted map of the kingdom's extent
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==Appearances==
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins – Desert Oath]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''
**''[[The Hidden Ones (DLC)|The Hidden Ones]]''
**''[[Curse of the Pharaohs]]''
*[[Assassin's Creed: Origins (comic)|''Assassin's Creed: Origins'' comic]]
*''[[Assassin's Creed Roleplaying Game]]'' {{Mo}}

==References==
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