Victory is Mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the setting?
It's a bunch of old friends sitting around the dinner table talking about the "Poem of Solon".
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Who was Amasis? Why is he mentioned? What Did he do?
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He also married a Greek princess named Ladice daughter of King Battus III (see Battus) and made
alliances with Polycrates of Samos and Croesus of Lydia.
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Amasis assigned the commercial colony of Naucratis on the Canopic branch of the Nile to the
Greeks
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It is said that it was during the reign of Ahmose II that Egypt attained its highest level of
prosperity
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The Pythagoras stuff fits the context as well. He learned that stuff in Egypt.
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/27/2009 10:05AM by rich.
