Background information: Ptahhotep was a civil servant and priest in Ancient Egypt. He is known for his aphorisms, or principles of truth, about Egyptian life and culture. This is one such passage about how to behave in a temple. If you are in the antechamber,
Stand and sit as fits your rank,
Which was assigned to you the first day.
Do not trespass - you will be turned back.
—Ptahhotep, ca. 2300 BCE

What was Ptahhotep’s purpose in writing this passage?

A.) To explain equal rights enjoyed by Egyptians.
B.) To remind people of their place in society.
C.) To give instructions on how to serve Pharaoh
D.) To explain Egyptian laws.

a, both were musicians during the jazz age

warfare was the primary means of cultural transmission in both regions.

explanati“there were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was no sewer to their house, and that the drainage of fifteen years was in a cesspool under it? how could they know that the pale-blue milk that they bought around the corner was watered, and doctored with formaldehyde besides? when the children were not well at home, teta elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts–and how was she to know that they were all adulterated? how could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes? and even if they had known it, what good would it have done them, since there was no place within miles of them where any other sort was to be had? the bitter winter was coming, and they had to save money to get more clothing and bedding; but it would not matter in the least how much they saved, they could not get anything to keep them warm. all the clothing that was to be had in the stores was made of cotton and shoddy, which is made by tearing old clothes to pieces and weaving the fiber again. if they paid higher prices, they might get frills and fanciness, or be cheated; but genuine quality they could not obtain for love nor moneyon:

protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.