Week 3: 15th - 23rd March
Braudel on Egypt pp 79-93
1. According to Braudel, certain social features had to be in place for an urban culture founded upon collective labour to emerge. What are they? [3]
2. What are some of the arguments for and against supposing that Egypt was influenced, directly or indirectly, by Mesopotamia? [4]
3. What was the original environmental impetus that drew communities to the Nile valley? [1]
4. What were the tasks that presented themselves to the early farmers of the Nile valley which required collective labour? [3]
5. What was the effect of the potter’s wheel on pottery? Why do you think that this was the case? [3]
6. What social implications might the introduction of the plough and the specialisation of metal-working have had? [2]
7. Why might the advent of writing and the appearance of centralised states have occurred at about the same time? [3]
8. Define: pictogram; ideogram; phonogram. [3]
9. Why might cities, and the political role they played, have developed so differently in Egypt and Mesopotamia? [5]
10. What is ma’at? How was it associated with the pharaoh? [2]
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