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Hatshepsut Accomplishments

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Hatshepsut was the fifth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, ruling from c. 1478 or 1479. There were very few female Pharaohs during this time and she has proven to be one of the most successful leaders in Egypt’s history. Hatsheput was one of two daughters born to the Pharaoh Thutmose I and his royal wife, Ahmose. She took over the throne after her father and husband died. The rightful heir to the throne, her husband’s second wife’s son, was too young to lead. Hatshepsut was next in line after him and was more than ready and qualified to run the dynasty. This paper will discuss three of Hatshepsut’s biggest accomplishments as Pharaoh and explain why she was such a successful leader. My research will show her to be a success through great building efforts, establishing trade for her people, and keeping peace for her people during her entire reign. …show more content…

Obelisks are tall, four sided structures with a pyramid on top. They were built to honor something or someone. Some of these structures can still be seen today. She also built many temples for her people to worship and pay tribute to different things. Hapshepsut even built a temple dedicated to herself! It was meant to be her final resting place and she would be buried there when she died. It is still standing today and is considered one of the most amazing examples of ancient Egyptian architecture.

When Hatshepsut came to power, Egypt was in a good position. Her dynasty was thriving and she wanted to take advantage of this positive time. She decided to establish trade routes with other dynasties. This was how she funded many of her construction projects. Hatshepsut’s people traded frankincense, myrrh trees, black gold, ebony, and incense. She often sent ships to a place called Punt, where she would trade for things to bring back home for her people to prosper from. Trading helped her dynasty make money and stay

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Hatshepsut is believed to have begun the Festival of the Valley, ‘which the god Amen was taken in his barque across the River Nile of the west bank of Thebes, where lay the main Theban royal cemetery. ’(Callender, ’Innovations of Hatshepsut’s Reign’, p, 39). This remained to be celebrated after the death of Hatshepsut, and the additional theologies she added to religion in Egypt, proved to be an effective approach to implementing her beliefs and to grasp a firm hold of the

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Hatshepsut also spent time on building programs to displays her power in Egypt by building elaborate buildings. Betsy M. Bryan suggests that “Hatshepsut inaugurated building projects that far out-stripped those of her

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Queen Hatshsput was the royal consort of Thutmose II, who is considered a much lesser pharaoh compared to his father thutmose I who extended egypts borders significantl;y as well as building many temples and his own tomb Queen Hatshsput was married to thutmose ii her half brother most likely to secure his kingship she is considered to be the real power behind thutmose II because because of the similar domestic and foreign policies which were later pursued under her reign and because of her claim that she was her father’s intended heir. She is depicted in several raised relief scenes from a Karnak gateway dating to Thutmose II's reign both together with her husband and alone.[1] She later had herself crowned Pharaoh several years into the

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It was erected in the early years of her rule and is a huge, opulent structure in the Temple of Karnak. The chapel was embellished with alternating bands of hieroglyphs and reliefs that depicted images of Hatshepsut's divine birth, her crowning, her accomplishments, and her prosperous trading excursions. It is a tribute to the grandeur with which Hatshepsut was presented by her court that a shrine like the Red Chapel was constructed for a pharaoh during his or her own reign. That was done on purpose to honour her governing accomplishments and to establish her as a revered deity in the New Kingdom pantheon. The Red Chapel was a special building with two levels of sanctuary and shrines to Amun on each level.

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