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Jtang Jessica Tang Hatshepsut Egypt's first female pharaoh This book is about how Hatshepsut's life and what happens after her life. I think she is written about because she is considered Egypt's first female pharaoh. In this book Hatshepsut Egypt's first female pharaoh it includes her childhood, how she's the god's wife, how she inherited the throne, and how she began to have a male look. I think the author wrote this book (Hatshepsut Egypt's first female pharaoh) because it teaches us about history and culture. I think it teaches about history because in Egypt before Queen Hatshepsut all the pharaohs were males and not females. In this book it tells the reader when she becomes queen and her life. For example in the book it says "Sometime after the pharaoh's death, mysterious events occurred. A massive campaign was mounted against her. Monuments were purposely damaged. Her kingly name was left off the lists of ruling kings. In many places where her royal name appeared it had been scraped off the stone and names of other closely related kings had been carved over it. Images of her in carved reliefs and sculptures were viciously destroyed as well."(page 10-11) This tells us about the history after Hatshepsut died. This book also teaches about culture because in the book it talks about how only males of royalty was able to become pharaoh and females were not able to rule. In the book it states "It is possible that Egypt's earlier female rulers may have thought of themselves as pharaohs, but non portrayed themselves as such. Hatshepsut's desire to appear male was probably because she was breaking tradition by calling herself a pharaoh." (Page 50-51) When it mentions traditions it means the only males were able to call themselves the Pharaoh ultimate ruler of Egypt. I learned that in ancient Egyptian carvings and paintings only men were depicted with movement and women always had their feet together. I also learned that a king's attire included the crook, the short handled flail, and the wide circular collar called a pectoral. And I also learned that a double crown meant that upper and lower Egypt were ruled by one ruler for example in the book Hatshepsut Egypt's first female pharaoh it says "later she added more of the traditional pharaoh's costume . This included the striped royal Nemes headdress, the crook, the short-handled tool called a flail, and the wide circular collar called a pectoral. a heavy double crown signified the union of Upper and Lower Egypt, and it was always adorned with a Uraeus-a cobra that was the ultimate symbol of pharaonic power.