Round 7: Tossup 14

To bring her husband home from war, a queen of this region apocryphally offered her hair as a sacrifice, causing it to turn into a constellation. A dynasty that ruled in this region fought six wars against the Seleucid (“suh-LOO-sid”) Empire over the region of Coele-Syria (“KOY-lay-SEAR-ee-uh”). The founder of that dynasty that ruled this region buried Alexander the Great in his territory and took the epithet “Soter.” (10[1])The worship of syncretic deities such as Serapis began in this region. (10[1])After the Battle of Actium, the suicide of a ruler in this region (10[2])led to the end of its Ptolemaic dynasty. For 10 points, Cleopatra VII died in what modern-day country that contains the Pyramids of Giza? ■END■

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