The Giza pyramids were well known, even in the ancient world. Read this account from the ancient Greek historian Herodotus (hih-RAH-duh-tus) about the Giza pyramids. Then answer the question below.
Herodotus's summary of the building of the pyramids, ca. 425 BCE
[Khufu] became king over [Egypt] and brought them every kind of evil. . . . He then bade all the Egyptians work for him . . . and they worked 100,000 men at a time, each continually for three months. Of this oppression there passed 10 years while the causeway was made by which they drew the stones [for the pyramid].
For the making of the [Great Pyramid] itself there passed a period of 20 years; the pyramid is square, each side measuring 800 feet, and the height of it is the same. It is built of stone smoothed and fitted together in the most perfect manner.
bade
:
ordered
oppression
:
harsh use of power
causeway
:
a path that goes across wet ground
How does Herodotus describe the king who built the Great Pyramid? will give brainlyest if right
Answer:
Cruel and evil tyrant.
Explanation:
In his words, Khufu was a cruel and evil tyrant. He forced a considerable part of the Egyptian populace into slavery, and made them work for him carrying heavy stones across the country. Herodotus claims that the building of his Egyptian pyramid in Giza demanded a workforce of 100,000 men every three months