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Question 1

Whats the nominative singular of the first second and third declension?

Answer 1

1st is a
2nd is us
3rd is nothing

Question 2

Whats the gentetive singular of the first second and third declension?

Answer 2

1st is ae
2nd is i
3rd is is

Question 3

what did Alexandria have?

Answer 3

3 harbours. the great harbour and the western labour lay on either side of a breakwater 1,200 metres long which joined pharos island to the mainland. the third labour was on the large lake which lay behind the city and was connected by cannals to the river nile. from here goods were brought by a further canal or overland to the red sea the route leading to india

Question 4

what was alexandria chosen by?

Answer 4

a greek king, alexandria the great

Question 5

when did alexandria come to eygpt?

Answer 5

331bc

Question 6

what did alexander see in the area?

Answer 6

excellant agricultural land and the fine harbour of a small fishing village west of the mouth of the nile, good anchorage, health climate and fresh water, lime stone quarries nearby to provide stone for building

Question 7

what did alexander do once he saw the area?

Answer 7

he commanded his architect to plan and built a new city which was to be the new centre of trade and civilisation

Question 8

when did alexander die?

Answer 8

while the city was still developing but the city was named after him and his body was later buried there in a magnificent tomb

Question 9

who was alexander succeeded by?

Answer 9

ptolemy one of his generals whose descendants governed alexandria and eygpt for the next 300 years

Question 10

what happened by first century AD?

Answer 10

eygpt became a part of the roman empire and alexandria was as large and as splendid as rome itself, was the greatest city in the eastern part of the empire with a million inhabitants

Question 11

why was alexandria so successful?

Answer 11

dut to its position at meeting points of all trade routes and good for trading large scale, merchants and businessmen were drawn as it offered them safe harbour for their ships, large number of dock-workers to handel their cargoes, huge warehouses for storage and a bust market for selling and buying goods

Question 12

what came into alexandria?

Answer 12

luxury goods such as bronze statues from greece or fine italian wines and raw materials such as wood and marble to be used by craftsmen in the local workshops.

Question 13

what went out of alexandria?

Answer 13

big quantities of wheat, papyrus, glassware and much else

Question 14

what goods were bought and sold in the city?

Answer 14

clothes, cotton, skins, muslins, silks, brass, copper, iron, gold, silver, glass, tortoise shell, rhinoceros horn, wine, olive oil, rice, butter, honey , myrrh, frankincense, cinnamon

Question 15

what travellers came to Alexandria and how?

Answer 15

travellers from Greece and Italy would approach alexandria by sea

Question 16

what could travellers see when coming into alexandria?

Answer 16

the first thing they would see rising above the horizon would be the alexandria lighthouse that stood on a little island called pharos just outside the harbour

Question 17

what was the lighthouse in alexandria?

Answer 17

the lighthouse was called pharos and was one of the 7 wanders of the ancient world acting as a marker day and night for thousands of ship in the port

Question 18

how did the architect plan alexandria?

Answer 18

carefully, with streets set up like grid system, crossing each other at right angles, main street canopus was more than 30 metres wide larger the streets in rome. houses were several stories high and many public buildings were marble

Question 19

what was the royal quarter?

Answer 19

by the great harbour was the royal quarter, an area of more than 260 hectares containing palaces, temples and gardens

Question 20

what was west of the royal quarter?

Answer 20

the caesareum , was a shrine begun by queen cleopatra in honour of the roman general marcus antonius and completed by the emperor augustus as a temple dedicated to himself

Question 21

what was the caesareum like ?

Answer 21

wonderfully high and large, full of precious paintings and statues and beautiful all over with gold and silver contains colonnade, libraries, courtyards and scared groves , all made as skilfully as possible with no expense spared

Question 22

what was infant of the caesareum?

Answer 22

2 obelisks, tall narrow pillars of granite pointed at the top. they were brought from an ancient eygpt temple and put in by a roman engineer in 13BC

Question 23

what happened to the obelisks in the 19th century?

Answer 23

one was removed to london and placed on the embankment of the river thames and the other was taken to central park new york, now known as cleopatras needles

Question 24

what was alexandria also known as ?

Answer 24

a good centre for education and study. the university known as the museum and situated in the royal corner has the largest library in the alien world with more than half a million volumes on it’s shelves. professional scholars were employed to do research in wide range of subjects, mathematics, astronomy, geography, literature and languages

Question 25

what famous discoveries were made in alexandria?

Answer 25

the first maps of the world were drawn, based on travellers reports, here euclid wrote his famous geometry textbook and aristarchus put forward his theory that the earth goes round the sun

Question 26

what did alexandria have in it?

Answer 26

many different races including eygptians, jews, romans, africans and indians but on the whole the people with the most power were the greeks

Question 27

what did the greek contribute to alexandria?

Answer 27

they planned and built the city they ruled it before the romans came and continued to run it under the romans theirs was the official language they owned wealth in alexandria, and enjoyed privileges

Question 28

what happened as the result of treatment towards greeks?

Answer 28

jealousy amount other races due to treatment of greeks, one of the reasons why quarrels and riots frequency broke out. the roman governor had to step in and try and settle out disputes