Question: When did the empire that the country Nehesy is a citizen of became a colony of in the 1st century end and start?

<P0-S0> following the defeat of the boers in the anglo - boer or south african war (1899 -- 1902), the union of south africa was created as a dominion of the british empire in terms of the south africa act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate british colonies: cape colony, natal colony, transvaal colony, and orange river colony. <P0-S1> the country became a self - governing nation state within the british empire, in 1934 following enactment of the status of the union act. <P0-S2> the dominion came to an end on 31 may 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named republic of south africa. <P0-S3> a republican constitution was adopted. <SEP> <P1-S0> Nehesy Aasehre (Nehesi) was a ruler of Lower Egypt during the fragmented Second Intermediate Period. <P1-S1> He is placed by most scholars into the early 14th Dynasty, as either the second or the sixth pharaoh of this dynasty. <P1-S2> As such he is considered to have reigned for a short time c. 1705 BC and would have ruled from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta. <P1-S3> Recent evidence makes it possible that a second person with this name, a son of a Hyksos king, lived at a slightly later time during the late 15th Dynasty c. 1580 BC. <P1-S4> It is possible that most of the artefacts attributed to the king Nehesy mentioned in the Turin canon, in fact belong to this Hyksos prince. <SEP> <P2-S0> In 332 BC, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered Egypt as he toppled the Achaemenids and established the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Kingdom, whose first ruler was one of Alexander's former generals, Ptolemy I Soter. <P2-S1> The Ptolemies had to fight native rebellions and were involved in foreign and civil wars that led to the decline of the kingdom and its final annexation by Rome. <P2-S2> The death of Cleopatra ended the nominal independence of Egypt resulting in Egypt becoming one of the provinces of the Roman Empire. <SEP> <P3-S0> following the defeat of the boers in the anglo - boer or south african war (1899 -- 1902), the union of south africa was created as a dominion of the british empire in terms of the south africa act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate british colonies: cape colony, natal colony, transvaal colony and orange river colony. <P3-S1> the country became a self - governing nation state within the british empire, in 1934 following enactment of the status of the union act. <P3-S2> the dominion came to an end on 31 may 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named republic of south africa. <P3-S3> a republican constitution was adopted. <SEP> <P4-S0> The Roman Empire (Latin: Imperium Rōmānum, Classical Latin: (ɪmˈpɛ. <P4-S1> ri. <P4-S2> ũː roːˈmaː. <P4-S3> nũː); Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr. <P4-S4> Basileia tōn Rhōmaiōn) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, with a government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia. <P4-S5> The city of Rome was the largest city in the world c. 100 BC -- c. AD 400, with Constantinople (New Rome) becoming the largest around AD 500, and the Empire's population grew to an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population at the time). <P4-S6> The 500 - year - old republic which preceded it had been severely destabilized in a series of civil wars and political conflict, during which Julius Caesar was appointed as perpetual dictator and then assassinated in 44 BC. <P4-S7> Civil wars and executions continued, culminating in the victory of Octavian, Caesar's adopted son, over Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the annexation of Egypt. <P4-S8> Octavian's power was then unassailable and in 27 BC the Roman Senate formally granted him overarching power and the new title Augustus, effectively marking the end of the Roman Republic.