Question
Early monuments from this period at Wadi Maghareh in the Sinai Peninsula include rock tables from Djoser and Sneferu, and a relief showing Sahure dispatching a fleet to the Red Sea. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this third-millennium BCE period of ancient Egyptian history that was followed by the First Intermediate Period and a subsequent “Middle” counterpart.
ANSWER: Old Kingdom [accept Age of the Pyramids or Age of the Pyramid-Builders; prompt on Third, Fourth or Fifth Dynasties by asking “what broader period were those part of?”]
[10h] The Sinai peninsula was referred to as the “Mining Country” and the “Ladders of” this material due to its prevalence there. A temple to Hathor was built in support of mining this material by Senusret I.
ANSWER: turquoise [or mefkat or mafkat or mfk’t]
[10m] The rock-cut chamber at Serabit el-Khadim, where turquoise was mined, was later expanded by this pharaoh. This stepson of Hatshepsut won the Battle of Megiddo.
ANSWER: Thutmose III [or Thutmose the Great; accept “Thutmosis” or “Thothmes” in place of “Thutmose”; prompt on Thutmose or Tuthmosis or Thothmes]
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