Egypt and multi or culture?

1. Who wrote weekly reading?
   • Gay Robins
   • Christina Riggs
   • Sally-Ann Ashton
   • All three
2. When did the Ptolemees take over the ancient Egypt?
   • The beginning of the Third Intermediary Period
   • Old Kingdom
   • 328 before the common era
   • Aaaahhh... I knew that...
3. How many times Iranians invaded Egypt?
   • Never
   • Once
   • Twice
   • Who are Iranians?
4. Why would Ptolemees present themselves as Egyptians?
   • Egypt was the centre of fashion at the time. It was only logical...
   • Greeks were obsessed with Egypt
   • To legitimise their right to power
   • Nubia (no idea why is this here)
5. The best preserved temples from the Ptolemaic period are in?
   • Dendera
   • Thebes
   • Dendera, Edfu and Pilae
   • I prefer Mayan archaeology...
6. Why did the temples built by the foreign rulers remain deeply Egyptian in style?
   • The temple architecture descends directly from the period between theNew Kingdom and the Late Period
   • Temples continued to be regarded as models of the cosmos at the time of creation, houses for the deity and ritual spaces.
   • Temples continued to be regarded as models of the cosmos at the time of creation
   • All three are correct answers.
7. Where is this temple?
   
   • Karnak
   • Saite
   • Alexandria
   • Philae
8. Did the Greeks enrich egyptian architecture with their own motifs?
   • Yes
   • No. But they did introduce visual representations in paintings and statues.
   • I don't know
   • As I said earlier... Mayans...
9. How many rulers of Ptolemaic dynasty you know of?
   • Ten
   • Fifteen
   • Sixteen
   • I do not know.
10. This is the statue of a man with the Horus stela. Do you know the period?
    
    • Fifteenth dynasty
    • Old Kingdom
    • Roman Period
    • Ptolemaic period
11. The architecture did not change much, how about the visual arts?
    • The greatest influence came from Assiryans
    • In the second century BC, the Egyptian artists adopt very obvious foreign features, faithfully reproducing the Greek portrait types
    • Kushites presented themselves as blonde Vikings
    • The Mayans... : )
12. Who claimed to have saved the Egypt from the Persians?
    • Sesostris III
    • Cleopatra
    • Alexander the Great
    • Nectanebo II
13. Who is this statue representing?
    
    • Hatshepsuth
    • Tiye
    • Arsinoe II
    • 2 and 3
14. How did Cleopatra die?
    • Suicide
    • Romans did the job
    • Cleo and Marco killed each other in a tragic romantic ending of a love story that was quite upsetting to the already dead Cesar
    • Ran away and died incognito in a remote temple.
15. Was the end of Ptolemy dynasty the end of Egypt as we know it?
    • Probably
    • No
    • Yes
    • All of the above

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• Published 28/10/2018
• Amended 28/10/2018
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