Ancient Rome Board Games #4 - Cleopatra (social studies, history, ancient world)

Cleopatra: instructions for activity Games to play
Mix and Match

• cut out all the cards
• place the cards with text in a pile face down, and the cards with pictures in a grid so you can see them all. - In a group of 2-4, students pick up a card, read it, and match it to the picture.
• The stories are numbered on the picture cards so that you can know the order.

Memory

• place all the cards in a grid, face down
• 2-3 players pick up 2 cards per turn and try and find a match - when they get a match, they collect it and keep it in their pile

Timeline

• use the pictures and text cards to order the 2 stories from beginning to end

Background
Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 BCE – 30 BCE) was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. She is known for her intelligence, political acumen, and for having relationships with two Roman leaders, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, to protect her kingdom from Roman expansion. Her reign was marked by political and romantic alliances with these figures, leading to the eventual Roman takeover of Egypt followed by her death (traditionally said to be by snake bite) after Mark Antony’s defeat by Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus. Cleopatra remains a figure of fascination in history, literature, and art for her life’s drama and her role in shaping the course of Western history.