Practice question · Multiple choice
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid. What does that do to the phrase "ancient Egypt"?
Hints
- Count the years from the Great Pyramid to Cleopatra, then from Cleopatra to now.
- Which gap is larger?
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D. It compresses three thousand years into one label
Why
The label flattens a span longer than everything since. Cleopatra was as distant from the pyramid builders as we are from her, and treating that stretch as one culture is the error the comparison exposes.
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