Introduction to World Civilization Deneme Sınavı Sorusu #1176867

What is the main subject of discussion among scholars such as Toynbee, Ali Mazrui, and Cheikh Anta Diop?


Whether Egyptian pharaohs were gods or not

Whether geographical factors supported farming

Whether there was equality between genders

Whether Egyptian civilization was African or not

Whether Egyptians were a warrior society or not


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Egypt’s geographical location has been a source of confusion and an expression of psychological mindset among intellectuals and laymen. Some ask: is Egypt African, Middle Eastern, or European? Mazrui in his article entitled “On the Concept We are All Africans” stated that Africa is whatever the mind determines it to be; it is a state of mind or “the quality of thinking of oneself as an African” (Mazrui, 1963: 88-97). Egypt is an African land, but the greatness of its golden civilizations of the past is so gargantuan that it can only be described as an amorphous geographical entity encompassing the entire continent, but also containing the Western part of the Middle East, and the Sinai Peninsula. Cheikh Anta Diop on Ancient Egypt stated “Egyptian antiquity is to African culture what GrecoRoman antiquity is to Western culture. The building up of a corpus of African humanities should be based on that fact (Diop, 1990: 31). Arnold J. Toynbee on Ancient Egypt wrote “This notable society emerged in the lower valley of the Nile during the fourth millennium B. C. and it was without ‘parents’ and without offspring; no living society can claim it as an ancestor (Toynbee, 1947:30). The correct answer is D.

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