Question
Bruce Trigger’s study Understanding Early Civilizations compares this Egyptian force and others like Yorùbá ogungbe (“oh-goong-bay”) bodyguards. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these Nubian mercenaries of the Eastern Desert whom Ahmose I hired as professional police. Once equated with the Pan-Grave culture, they employed handcuffs and basenji-like dogs.
ANSWER: Medjay [or variants of mdj, mdaj, madj, madj, Madjai, Mazoi, or Mejay]
[10e] A baboon helps a policeman catch a thief in a tomb relief from this period’s 5th Dynasty, when Egypt hired a Nubian treasurer and sent early expeditions to Punt. It preceded the First Intermediate Period.
ANSWER: Old Kingdom
[10m] Old Kingdom elites with this trait included the weaver Seneb and many animal tenders and jewelers. Harkhuf returned from the Nubian land of Yam with one of these people, who informed depictions of the Nubian god Bes.
ANSWER: dwarfism [or nanism; accept dwarfs, dwarves, pygmies, pygmy peoples, pygmyism, Little People; nem, deneg, dng, or dag; accept achondroplasia; prompt on shortness or short stature or equivalents] (While most scholars consider Bes an import from more southerly parts of Africa, some favor an indigenous Egyptian origin.)
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