HISTORY
THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT 3200 BC500 BC
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to honor great military achievements
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to provide everything a pharoah would need in the afterlife
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provide a place for daily worship
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To give the slaves a job to do during the great famine
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pyramids today stand as a reminder of the ancient Egyptian glorification of life after death, and in fact, the pyramids were built as monuments to house the tombs of the pharaohs. Death was seen as merely the beginning of a journey to the other world.
Detailed explanation-2: -The pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs and their consorts. These massive funerary monuments were meant to protect the pharaohs’ remains and possessions, ensuring their survival in the afterlife.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pyramids were intended to protect the pharaoh’s body buried inside. Dead-end passages were built into the pyramid to trick robbers who came to steal the expensive objects buried with the king. But most of the pyramids were still robbed of their rich contents!