Could you compare and contrast?

Question

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII.

Answer 1

There is not really much to compare between the two.  Alexander of Macedon was a conqueror, extending his empire from Macedonia and Greece into India and North Africa.  Cleopatra, descending from Hellenistic pharoahs of one of Alexander's successors, did not extend her kingdom.  

Alexander did marry Roxanna to extend his control into Bractria, while Cleopatria used her relations with Julius Ceasar and Mark Anthony to keep her position in Egypt, but that is as close of a comparision there is, aside from both being Hellenistic.