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NSWAncient HistorySection II (Ancient Societies): New Kingdom Egypt to the death of Amenhotep III
Quick questions on Evaluation and historiography of New Kingdom Egypt to the death of Amenhotep III: HSC Ancient History
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What is gaps in the evidence?Show answer
Even a well-documented site can still leave a gap exactly where a question needs evidence. Deir el-Medina, the walled village of the men who cut the royal tombs, was founded early in the Eighteenth Dynasty, but the enormous cache of ostraca and papyri that make it one of the best-documented communities in the ancient world, recording wages, strikes and court cases, is overwhelmingly Ramesside (Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasty), decades to over a century after Amenhotep III's death. A historian studying Amenhotep III specifically cannot borrow this material as direct evidence for his reign, only as a later, related, comparison.
What is no named historian?Show answer
"Historians disagree about slavery" or "historians disagree about the death obsession" is an ungraded, vague claim; name Assmann, Kemp, Taylor, Eyre or Loprieno and state their actual position.
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