CLCV 2906 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Breccia, Bronze Age, Rein
24 May 2016
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Pharaohs chose names to reflect their political platform, and since one of the most important things for egypt was agriculture they used an early form of a plough. This symbol was associated with pharaohs as a royal emblem because they recognised that their main task is to flood the nile through their intervention with the gods and goddesses. In times of famine, the egyptians would often kill the king. At the end of the old kingdom where the longest rein is three years because the majority of kings were put to death to appease the gods so that the period of famine can end. The red breccia frog is highly detailed which indicates the existence of bronze tools since breccia cannot be carved in the neolithic period. The transition from naqada iii to the pre-dynastic period is attributed to bronze ploughs which allowed for better cultivation of crops by providing deeper soil penetration (higher germination rate and better crop yields).
