Answer these questions on the question
paper. You do
not need to write full sentences if a short answer will do. Longer
answers should be in full
sentences.
1. At what date were the earliest
glass objects made in Egypt?
2. Was this before or after the
foundation of Alexandria?
3. What are two major components of glass?
a)
b)
4. What was this mixture probably used for before it was used to make
things that we would call glass?
5. Explain briefly how the earliest
glass objects were shaped?
6. What kind of object was this
method most suitable for?
7. What new method was discovered in
the first century B.C.?
8. What different kinds of coloured
glass objects were there?(see photographs on pages 106f) (3)
EGYPT (Stage 18)
1. Why was the flooding of the
Nile important? (2)
2. Why was it important for other
countries (e.g. Rome) as well?
3. Who decided what was to be done
with the farming land of Egypt - the farmers or the rulers (in
Alexandria)?
4. How did the rulers keep a check on
what the farmers, perhaps in distant villages, were doing? (3)
5. A certificate was issued for work
in the reign of the emperor Hadrian.
a) Whose work is described?
b) What work had he done?
c) How long had he done this job for?
d) Who issued the certificate?
6. Did things change for the peasants
when the Romans took over Egypt from the Greeks?
7. There were a lot of taxes, and
licences were required for many activities. Bribery was common.
a)What different jobs were done by
the people given money perhaps as bribes by the Greek whose
accounts are shown on p.109? (They are probably all really
bribes.)
b)How many drachmas did he pay
in bribes?