7B City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish

Question 1

Summarise chapter 5 of city of the sharp-nosed fish (9)

Answer 1

• Concerns Emperors
• Starts with the origin of Egypt as a province.
• Continues with how the Emperors presented themselves as gods and how priests and priestesses helped to validate this.
• It teaches of the dangers that came with hesitation in support of a new Emperor and what would happen if someone had backed the wrong successor.
• It then moves on to talk about imperial visits and the costs they entailed, then discussing how an Emperor and his lover became a part of Egyptian myth.
• After this, it speaks of how Emperors were approached with requests by the people and their use of proxies to manage provinces.
• It then explains damnatio memoriae and how it had been used.
• Moving on, it talks of how all people of Roman provinces were granted citizenship and the effects this had.
• Finally, it describes divides among the people relating to religion.

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