Agrippina The Younger Research Paper

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Agrippina the Younger was born on 6 November AD 15 in the Rhine settlement of Ara Ubiorum in Germany. Agrippina was the daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the elder, which are both mother and father to Agrippina the younger. Agrippina’s mother and father had came from moral family, which had everyone in Rome to know what they did and what they ruled to make them so famous around the world, which Germanicus was the nephew adopted son of the emperor Tiberius. Agrippina was described as a strong women and quick- tempered women, which Agrippina had slept with so many other man to build up her power in Rome, and to become known to everyone that she is a strong women. But Agrippina’s family were as perhaps unusual among imperial families, which

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