Draw conclusions why

would disease or famine

threaten the pharaoh's

authority over the people?

Because Pharaohs were considered God-like people.

Explanation:

Ancient Egyptians believed that their rules were semi-divine, like demi-gods, and as demi-gods, they supposedly had power over natural phenoneman like disease or famine.

If crops were failing, or if some infectious disease was spreading, it was seen as a failure on the Pharaoh's part, and only because of they way he might have responded to it, but also because it was thought that he either did not avoid it, or helped cause it.

Finally, besides the superstition aspects, there is the socioeconomic factor to it: if people are sick, and hungry, they are more likely to despise their rulers, and that is something that happens up to this day.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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