1) Ptolemaic Egypt is a tale of two cultures that initially maintained a wary ____________.

2) Despite all of its inner tensions, Egypt of the Ptolemies was in many ways ____________ __________.

3) The foundation of (the city of )Alexandria (by Alexander the Great) was clearly an innovation intended to create a new base for __________ the country.

4) Although Alexander had himself crowned an Egyptian pharaoh, he showed great ____________ for Egyptian religious susceptibilities.

5) After Alexander¹s death in Babylon in 323 BC, Ptolemy, son of Lagos (one of Alexander¹s generals) acquired the section of the empire made up of _______ and Libya.

6) In a subsequent series of "Wars of the Successors" in which Alexander¹s generals fought over how the empire was to be divided, three great kingdoms emerged. One of these was the empire of the Ptolemies, the core of which was _________.

7) The rulers of all three Hellenistic kingdoms (including the Ptolemies in Egypt) felt themselves to be Macedonians with Macedonian traditions and a deep affinity with __________ culture.

8) The city of ___________ founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC became the Ptolemaic capital and quickly became the most spectacular city in the Hellenistic world.

9) The Sema was not only the burial place of the Ptolemaic kings but also contained the body of ____________ ___ ________.

10) The most spectacular of all of Alexandria¹s buildings was the __________ on the east end of Pharos island.

11) The world-famous library was founded by _____________ as part of a policy of making Alexandria the center of Greek culture and was a center of research and instruction.

12) Ptolemy I¹s agent Demetrius of Phalerum dispatched searchers all over the Greek world to obtain the required texts and by the end of the period the library held no fewer than __________ volumes for the pursuit of scholarship and scientific enquiry.

13) Ptolemy established a four-yearly festival called the Ptolemaieia that was intended to be equal in status to the _________ _________.

14) The Ptolemies knew that the most effective methods for running the land of Egypt had been devised by the ancient Egyptians themselves and the key principle of government was ____________.

15) During the Ptolemaic period the _________ enjoyed considerable political power because their good will was evidently seen by the Ptolemies as the key to the acquiescence of the Egyptian population.

16) The priests and scribes were the pre-eminent repositories and exponents of traditional Egyptian ______________.

17) In the Ptolemaic concept of the afterlife, the judgement of the dead was still central and depended on a ___________ life.

18) (There continued to be) the overriding conviction that the gods were maintaining a moral _______ and that it was of critical importance to determine their will and abide by it.

19) There was a clear sense of social hierarchy and a recognition that a person¹s position within that structure determined his ___________.

20) A large group of Egyptian scribes were engaged in temple duties but below them a significant number of scribes functioned as _________ ________ and ___________.

21) The great masses of the Egyptian peasantry engaged in the agricultural production that formed the basis of the economy. They carried out their tasks as laborers or tenants on ________ and temple land or on great estates.

22) From the late third century BC onwards, the political situation in Egypt outside of Alexandria rapidly ____________ as the country seethed with internal discord.

23) In 30 BC, the brilliant and ancient kingdom (of Egypt) fell to________.