Ptolemy IV Philopater was born in ? and died in 205 BC. He killed his Mother, brother, uncle,and mabe hes siter(who was his wife) Antiochus III atacked the Egyptian lands in Palestine. Ptolemy defeated him in Rapia in 217 BC.

When the Egyptians encountered other rivers they thought it was wierd that they flowed North to South.

 

 

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