... . Then he named Alexandria after himself. He died and his Empire was divvied up between his generals. Ptolemy was one of them and took Alexandria as his capital. The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt for the next two and half centuries. Wine producing grapes and cotton were grown and foreign trade took place with luxury goods. Ptolemy absorbed Egypt's religion with their own and built ... one knows what really happened to it. It could have been only a small portion that had been damaged by the war. The Ptolemaic Dynasty slowly began to decline, as the later successors did not rule as well. T...

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