British political ambitions The Ptolemaic Era We were not able to find any text about taxation in this era, but we deduced it from what Diodorus, who visited Egypt at the end of this era, mentioned, where he said: The land of Egypt was divided into three parts among the priests, the king, and the army men, and a part for the priests, which was the largest, and the third was the smallest. I saw that the second part was one-third of the area of cultivated land in Egypt, and since it was 6 million feddans, one-third of that was from The three divisions are as follows: Priests' share 2,500,000 King's share 2,000,000 Army's share 1,500,000 And the king's share is rented out, meaning from taxation, naturally, and the other two shares their tax is 787,500 Egyptian pounds, based on my calculation and considering 19 qirsh per feddan. The Roman Era Strabo visited Egypt during the Roman era and provided an extensive geographical description, but he was stingy in mentioning anything about its financial affairs, contenting himself with saying that Egypt paid a great tribute. And Mercator said that the tax was at a rate of 20% of the land's produce. Strabo described the good way in which the land of Egypt was irrigated in that era, and from this we must infer that the cultivated area and its produce did not reach what they were in the era of the Pharaohs, if not less. And I see that the country