Primary Source
"[T]he god's wife Hatshepsut executed the affairs of the Two Lands according to her counsels. Egypt worked for her, head bowed . . ."
–a government official during Hatshepsut's reign, from "The 18th Dynasty Before the Amarna Period," by Betsy M. Bryan, in The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Read the quote from the primary source. What was it about Hatshepsut that made her an extraordinary pharaoh?
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Responses
She united Upper and Lower Egypt.
She united Upper and Lower Egypt.
She was the wife of a god.
She was the wife of a god.
She was a female pharaoh.
She was a female pharaoh.
She built the largest pyramid.
She built the largest pyramid.
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She was a female pharaoh.
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