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New Kingdom Egypt Society during the Ramesside Period

ANC-RAM is worth about 25 marks out of 100 in recent HSC Ancient History papers. Practise 12 exam-style questions (multiple choice, short answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.

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New Kingdom Egypt society during the Ramesside period — sites, kingship and officials, the army and women, the economy and Deir el-Medina, strikes and tomb robberies, religion and personal piety, art and literature, with how to answer the Section II question.

  1. 1What you need to know
  2. 2Context and sites
  3. 3Social structure and political organisation
  4. 4The economy
  5. 5Religion, death and burial
  6. 6Cultural and everyday life
  7. 7Common mistakes
  8. 8Exam tips
  9. 9Links to other topics
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Example questions

Example 1 · 3 marks · short answer

Outline how the work of the royal tomb-builders of Deir el-Medina was organised.

(3 marks)

Example 2 · 1 mark · multiple choice

Why did Ramesses II build his new capital, Per-Ramesses, in the eastern Nile Delta?

  1. AIt was near his family's homeland and the routes to the Levant
  2. BThe Theban priests forced the royal family to leave Upper Egypt
  3. CIt was close to the gold mines of Nubia and the Eastern Desert
  4. DIt was Egypt's southern frontier facing the kingdom of Kush

Example 3 · 1 mark · multiple choice

The tomb-robbery papyri from the reign of Ramesses IX record official investigations. What do they most suggest about late Ramesside society?

  1. ATomb robbery was unknown before the reign of Ramesses IX
  2. BThe pharaoh personally excavated the royal tombs to protect their treasures
  3. COnly foreigners were accused, showing hostility to immigrants in Thebes
  4. DRoyal control had weakened and officials were accused of corruption

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