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As a combined assignment in Social Studies and Language Arts, the class had to choose from a pharaoh of the following and write about their lives and how the development of their nation began.

Menes                              Hatshepsut Sargon

Khufu                                Ahmose                                Hammurabi

I choose Hatshepsut.  Heres how her life as a pharaoh began . . . Hatshepsut was the wife of the Pharaoh Thutmose II, actually her half-brother.  After her husband died her nephew was in line next to be pharaoh but Hatshepsut thought he was to young so she took over and became a pharaoh on her own.  It is a belief that she poisoned her husband just so she could be the ruler of the nation.

She ruled over an empire there.  The river closest to the empire was the Nile River. She made an impact on the development of her civilization by becoming pharaoh and ruling over the civilization.  Hatshepsut pretended to be a male so it would be easier for her to become pharaoh.  The picture to the left is the temple or otherwise what Hatshepsut and everyone in the nation lived in.  She also made an impact by expanding trade routes through Punt.  Egyptians trade things like gold and bronze weapons.

As a Female pharaoh she was pictured with a beard to show beauty for the afterlife.  Their organs were put in a jar of water to keep reserved.  The organs were put around them to take into the afterlife.  The afterlife is a place Egyptians believed they went after death.  Only male pharaohs wore head dresses into the afterlife to represent their beauty.

Pictures from . . .

http://bediz.com/hatshep/story.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+hatshepsuts+temple++&ie=utf-8&oe=utf–a8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox

Information from . . .

http://www.googlethefemalepharaohHat.

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~ by Katie on February 26, 2010.