What did Queen HAtshepsut do as pharaoh of Egypt?

Answer 1

Hatshepsut encouraged trade and was a big fan of arts and architecture. She had many monuments built for her. When she died, her step-son Thutmose lll destroyed many of her monuments and buildings. However, her unique achievement was not destroyed by Thutmose. He buried it. This was her temple at Deir el-Bahari. It is unique in Egyptian architecture. Setting the temple against a cliff-face rippled with clefts in the rock-face, she drilled two tunnels deep into the cliff and built a holy altar in the centre where only High Priests would enter. These secret places were put there deliberately. To ascend the Holy place, one walks up stairs and ramps. This mimics the rise one ascended to get to Solomon's temple in Jerusalem. It is in fact a copy of Solomon's temple. But she was not the only person to build a copy. New Zealand Maori, working on the basis of legends handed down to them from ancestors living in South China in circa 1000 BC, recently constructed an entrance way in Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand that also reflects the entrance way to Solomon's temple. However, Hatshepsut also signalled another clue as to the origins of her temple. She built it to reflect Solomon's words in Song of Solomon, "Oh my dove, you are in the cleft of the rock in the secret places of the stairs". But her name Hat-Shep-Sut also can be read "The Sign of the Sheba of the South". In other words, her temple is a sign (H'at) that Hatshepsut was the "Queen Sheba (Shepa) of Ophir-Africa" (Old Testament) or Queen of the South or Sut (New Testament) and Josephus' "Queen of Egypt and Ethiopia" who saw Solomon's temple in Jerusalem in circa 950 BC. However, the Egyptologists' dates for Hatshepsut are wrong by 500 years so they do not consider this possibility.

Hatshepsut was the only women of significance to rule ancient Egypt. One queen succeeded the last pharaoh of the 12th dynasty but did not survive for long and only held that position in the absence of the pharaoh who had probably died. Hatshepsut went on an expedition to Punt but the location of this place is subject to debate. If "Punt" was the Phoenicia (Pun-icea) of Hiram the Great and the Israel of Solomon, then her return to Egypt with "animal skins, myrrh trees, ebony, and gold" can be explained by her receipt of gifts from the Phoenicians. She probably returned from Israel-Phoenicia with mathematicians and engineers to help Egypt build structures such as her temple at Deir el Bahari. Between the demise of the 12th Dynasty and the 18th, Egypt had lost most of those arts and sciences but they returned in the reign of Hatshepsut - imported from "Punt". That is why "Punt's" location is so hard to fathom because of these developments in the wake of her expedition there. Therefore Somalia, places in Arabia ("south-western Asia"), somewhere else in "East Africa" or "across the Red Sea", i.e., "Edom", certainly in the 15th century BC almost certainly could not have been "Punt". But Israel and Phoenicia (Tyre, Sidon and Byblos) in the 10th century BC almost certainly could have been the place she visited with her expedition. The gifts she received from Puntites could be explained by them having been obtained by Phoenicians (Tyrians) from their exploration of the ancient world which included expeditions to parts of the African continent (Hebrew "Ophir") inaccessible to land-based or river-based expeditions setting out from Egypt which had been prostrate under the Amalekite-Hyksos conquest for 450 years after the demise of the 12th dynasty at the hands of the Hyksos or "Shepherd kings".

Hatshepsut did not conquer lands though her stepson Thutmose lll did.

Hatshepsut expanded Egypt's economy by trading with Africa and Asia.

She also rebuilt many of Egypt's temples.

Answer 2

She builds the Djeser-Djeseru. We know it as The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. It is located at Deir el-Bahri, The Obelisks of Hatshepsut and The Red Chapel. She lived in the Palace of Ma'at. It was rectangular structure. The capital was Thebes, Amarna, and then again Thebes. In terms of trade, Hatshepsut was not blind to the need of bolstering Egypt's economy' and indeed, the Punt expedition is but the climax of her consistent trading enterprises with Lebanon, Crete, Syria, West Africa, South Africa, Aswan and the reopening of mines in Mt. Sinai. She traded Ivory, gold, silver and other goods for eating. Hatshepsut's legacy is also extant in the enduring architectural innovations she incorporated into her building program. The design of Djeser-Djeseru is a prime example; although there exists a few doubtful precursors of the terraced template originality of the design cannot be gainsaid.' The thematic structure of the three terraces, from her role as pharaoh, to legitimization of her rule and achievements, to the worship of the deities is indisputably her own invention, as were the ramps linking them, imitating the glory of a sun's ray. Thutmose III modeled his mortuary temple on Hatshepsut's whilst Akhenaten incorporated the design of the ramps into his own buildings. Similarly, the design of Hatshepsut's tomb, with the three successive passageways leading to the burial chamber, her royal sarcophagus, her resting stations for Amun's barque were likewise replicated by her successors. Therefore, Hatshepsut's reign was characterized by a myriad of architectural innovations that became her legacy, to be admiringly integrated into the buildings of the future generations of pharaohs. Extreme prosperity and renaissance in art and building projects mark the beginning of this period. Towards the end of the 19th Dynasty the increasing power of the priesthood corrupts the central government. During the 20th Dynasty tomb robbing is done by officials. The priesthood becomes hereditary and begins to assume secular power. The government breaks down.

Answer 3

she trade with others and built the temples that men couldn't done