Who is Queen Hatshepsut?

Question

Who is Queen Hatshepsut?

Answer 1

She was one of the first female kings (to assume royal male titles and actually depict herself as a man in reliefs), but not actually the first. It's a common misconception. The first certain female pharaoh was Queen Sobekneferu, who preceded Hatshepsut by a few hundred years.

Answer 2

First female pharoh (queen) of Egypt in 1400s BC.  Good info here: http://www.bediz.com/hatshep/story.html

Answer 3

She was a woman pharaoh.

http://www.egyptyologyonline.com.hatshep...

says:

"Hatshepsut, was the daughter of Thutmose I (also known as Tuthmosis) and Queen Ahmose Nefertari. Hatshepsut (1473-1458 BC) was married to her half brother Thutmose II  perhaps in order to strengthen his claim to the throne, and they had a daughter together called Neferure. Hatshepsut commissioned official portraits of her daughter wearing the false beard and sidelock of youth. Some scholars speculate that this is evidence that Hatshepsut was priming Neferure for a future on the throne. The actual heir to the throne, the future Thutmose III, was in fact the son of one of his father's concubines.

As Thutmose III was the only male child, and his mother wasn't the queen, he was married to his half sister Neferure in order to reinforce his position as the rightful heir. He was still very young when his father (Thutmose II) died, therefore his step-mother Hatshepsut was appointed as his regent.

Hatshepsut then went one step further and had herself crowned as pharaoh, taking the throne name "Maatkare". This allowed her to enjoy a long co-regency with the young Thutmose III and effectively blocked him from full power. She seems to have been supported by the priests of Amun, and some of the reliefs in her mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri (near the Valley of the Kings) reinforced her claim to the throne by emphasising her divine birth, the result of a union between Amun and her mother Queen Ahmose.

  Hatshepsut surrounded herself with strong and loyal advisors, many of whom are still known today: Hapuseneb, the High Priest of Amun, and her closest advisor, the royal steward Senemut. As pharaoh, she initiated building projects that were grander and more numerous than those of any of her Middle Kingdom predecessors. She employed two great architects: Ineni, who had worked for both her husband and father, and the royal steward Senemut. She had twin obelisks erected at the entrance to the the Temple of Karnak -  one still stands today, as the tallest surviving obelisk, the other has since broken in two and toppled. She later ordered two more obelisks to be made to celebrate her sixteenth year as pharaoh. However, one of the obelisks broke whilst being quarried, and was left in-situ at its quarrying site in Aswan, where it still is today."

Answer 4

She was a Pharaoh (king) of Egypt in the Ancient Egyptian time period in the 15th century BC and ruled for 22 years.

She claimed the throne after her husband died, and took control because she believed her son (Thutmosis III) to be too young to rule and make good decisions.  Her decision to rule caused a lot of skepticism and even public outrage, but all that was quieted.  She proved to be a very good leader, and traded with nations (such as Nubia and even Punt) much farther away, bringing myrrh and prosper to the Egyptians.

In the end, she was very loved and remembered.

She was also though to have been born from the gods, which therefore made it acceptable for her to rule.

Answer 5

she was the first female emperor in worlds history

Answer 6

playing "Carmen SanDiego-Great Race through time " are we ???

she was an Egyptian Queen- the 1st lady monarch

Answer 7

A very interesting Pharoah, by the time she left her office for the underworld, Egypt had the coffers filled and overflowing, many new monuments, and her kingdom had relative peace, throughout her reign.  Some books hint at that she may have been the one who pulled Moses from the Nile.