Mon., 10/28

Do Now—Exercise 16B—Model answer: Apepi I’s letter to Sequenere was so insulting that it agitated Sequenere to war. In the letter, Apepi I compares Sequenere’s Theban subjects to hippopotami, or disgusting, smelly, roaring, and barbaric animals, suggesting that the Thebans were inferior to his own Hyksos subjects. Sequenere, an indigenous Egyptian, would have been outraged that an intruding foreign king, regarded as uncivilized, had the nerve to compare his native Egyptians to uncivilized hippopotami. Too proud to take these insults, Sequenere gathered his troops and marched towards the Hyksos capital, Avaris, but was promptly killed by Apepi’s border guards. The Hyksos-Theban feud continued after this incident, resulting in the wholesale expulsion of the Hyksos out of Egypt, and exemplifying the destructive power of insults. Read: Ch. 27 HW: For twenty minutes… …complete Exercise 16B. …complete Exercise 16D. …finish reading (or review) Ch. 27. Field Notes No. 16 is due tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/29). If you need the answers to 16D, come into Lyceum or phone a friend.