How are Cleopatra and Abraham Lincoln different and similar?

I would just like to know some similarities and differences between Cleopatra and Abraham Lincoln.|||Well, it's quite a stretch to compare the two, but I can think of a few similarities and differences.





Similarities:


They were both powerful people who were very cunning and shrewd politicians. Most people think of Lincoln as this benevolent figure who didn't care about politics and wasn't out for any personal glory, like he was a martyr almost. And while it is true that he had a genuine conviction to improve his country and to serve, he was really a fantastic politician and, like any politician, he occasionally lied, misinformed, and glossed over unpleasantness in the motivations of getting re-elected. Cleopatra too had a powerfully political mind, going so far as to kill several of her siblings so that she could not be overthrown as Pharaoh of Egypt. I suppose you could say that both were power-hungry, though not necessarily in a negative way. But both definitely had power and enjoyed it.





Both made very unpopular decisions, especially militarily wise (Lincoln's decisions in the Civil War, and Cleopatra's during wars in her kingdom), and were often at odds with their political contemporaries.





They both led their countries (or empire, in Cleopatra's case) in times of great social upheaval and turmoil.





They were both wartime leaders.





Both married (or in Cleopatra's case, was a consort/mistress/joint ruler) for political or social reasons, though this was not the entire reason for either. Cleopatra was said to have genuinely loved both Caesar and Mark Antony as well as having political reasons for marrying them, and Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd were very devoted and loving to each other despite one of Lincoln's motivations for marrying her being her relative wealth and social standing.





Both were controversial figures in their time, and even disliked among their contemporaries (Lincoln was one of the most unpopular presidents for a number of years in his own time, but is regarded as the greatest in our times) but have gained notoriety and great respect posthumously.





President Lincoln was assassinated, and there is speculation that Cleopatra was murdered (not suicide as has been historically presumed), though the official cause of death will never be known for sure.





Both played constant games of "cat and mouse" with political enemies and rivals.








Differences:


Cleopatra was a monarch and absolute ruler of her country. Her word was law, and there was little in her way to challenge that. President Lincoln was the commander in chief in a representative democracy, which means that he was elected by the public as well as by the government, and he could not make any major decisions without other representatives in government's majority approval.





Lincoln was assassinated, the generally accepted report of Cleopatra's death was suicide by snakebite, though this theory has come under fire in historical and archaeological circles in recent times.





Cleopatra was worshipped by her people as the living embodiment of a goddess, as Pharaohs often/always were in her time, while Lincoln was seen by most as a human figure with flaws and undesirable characteristics like anyone else, who just happened to be in a position of great power and responsibility.





Cleopatra presided over subjects and her society had basically three classes: royalty, nobility and religious authority (priests, scholars, nobility) and underclass. Roles in society were generally fixed at birth and there was no class mobility. She was born royalty and died royalty.


Lincoln presided over a democratic and free society in which people could improve their status, as Lincoln himself did: he elevated himself from a poor, uneducated young man from Illinois to eventually being the president of the United States, and one who history regards as one of the greatest presidents we've had.





Cleopatra married/had marriage-like relationships many times (on one or two occasions to her own siblings). Lincoln married once.|||Go to Wikipedia and look at both of their biography. Look for similarities.|||Both were in powerful positions