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Hatshepsut and Thutmose III
Two Different Approaches to Helping
Egypt to Flourish
CHW3M Sept. 2015
Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple at
Deir El Bahri: it reflects a person who was…
Ancient Egypt Online, Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple, 2010,
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/hatshepsutmorttemple.html (Sept. 28,
2015)
How did she go from magnificent temple to
being erased from her own monuments?
The Silk Route, Egypt: Luxor and the West Bank of the Nile, N.d.,
http://www.the-silk-route.co.uk/egypt2.htm (Sept. 28, 2015).
Maat
• A concept and a goddess
= Order of life
balance
harmony
truth
justice
Context on Women
• Read pages 77-79 in the text under the
subheadings “Family,” “The Role of Women,”
and “The Role of Men” and make notes.
Page #
Heading
Details (point form)
77
Legal
rights of
women
- same as men
- own and sell land and
property
- divorce
- start a court case
- be a witness in court
Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power
• 1479-1457 BCE
• married to Thutmose II
• she was the step mother of Thutmose
III who inherited the throne but was
too young to rule
• so she acted as regent (ruled in place
of him) and co-ruler
• eventually she declared herself
pharaoh (king)
• ruled for 22 years
Garfield Newman, et al., Echoes from the Past (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson,
2001), p. 63.
Video Questions
• Egypt’s Golden Empire
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqh7vYKMz9
Q
– 22:24 - 26:30, 26:45 - 27:01
• Describe 3 actions Hatshepsut took to
persuade Egyptians of the legitimacy of her
rule.
• How did she depict (portray) herself?
Egypt Flourished Through:
Hatshepsut’s Trade Expedition to Punt
PBS, Nova: Where is Punt, 2009, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/egyptpunt.html (Sept. 28, 2015)
Video Questions
• 30:13 - 35:15
– How did the expedition to Punt help Hatshepsut
and Egypt?
Egypt Flourished Through: Thutmosis’
Military Expansion
PBS, Egypt’s Golden Empire: Thutmosis III, 2006,
http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/newkingdom/tuthmosis3.html (Sept. 25,
2015)
Thutmosis III
• "His Majesty commanded that there be
recorded on a stone wall in the temple he
had renovated...the triumphs accorded him
by his father, Amun, and the booty he took.
And so it was done."
Louvre Museum, Annals of Thutmosis III, N.d.,
http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/annals-thutmosis-iii (Sept.
28, 2015)