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Reading passage describes how ancient Egypt was collapsed by giving 3 factors. On the other hand, lecturer bring up several points contradict these arguments.
First, speaker argues that provincial governors are privileged class, so they don't have any reason to oppose the rule of the pharaoh. If they are royal to their king, they could get additional benefits from pharaoh. Moreover, central army was strong enough to control over provincial governors' army. This casts doubt on the reading passage, which states that attitude change of provincial governor toward pharaoh resulted collapse of Egypt.
Second, according to the lecture, historical documents are misunderstood by people. In the documents, we could only find drought of eastern Egypt. There are signs of drought only in that specific area, so we cannot say Egypt was collapsed because of drought. This refutes the reading passage's assertion that severe drought, stated in historical documents, caused Egypt to collapse.
Final point made in the lecture is that power struggle is quite common in Egypt. There were many struggles between sons of pharaoh in other period. There is no difference between pepi and other kings' period, so we cannot say this struggle is the reason for collapse of Egypt. This rebuffs the reading passage's argument that long reign of Pepi made Egypt to collapse. |