An overview of what was accomplished under these two leaders.

1. The Significance of Queen
Hatshepsut and Ramses The Great
By: S. Chow
For Mr. Haskvitz
5/27/08

2. Queen HatshepsutQueen Hatshepsut
 Born in the 15 century B.C.Born in the 15 century B.C.
 She was in a unique women who was in aShe was in a unique women who was in a
unique position.unique position.
 She would become pharaoh after herShe would become pharaoh after her
father died.father died.
 She ruled for about 15 yearsShe ruled for about 15 years

3. Queen HatshepsutQueen Hatshepsut

4. The significance of Hatshepsut
• Hatshepsut was the second known to
have formally assumed power as "King of
Upper and Lower Egypt"
• She re-established trading relationships
lost during a foreign occupation and
brought great wealth to Egypt.

5. Other facts
• She tried to make herself more god-like by
the invention of stories with the
attachment to gods.
• Hatshepsut did different things to be
accepted to be ruler.
• She dressed in men’s clothing and built
statues after herself

6. King Ramses
• He was born around 1303B.C and at age
fourteen, Ramses was appointed Prince
Regent by his father Seti 1.
• King Ramses II , who reigned for 67 years
during the 19th dynasty of the 12th
century BC, was known as "Ramses the
Great".
• He was the first king in history to sign a
peace treaty with his enemies.

7. Battle of Kadesh
• Ramses II reasserted
the royal power in this
domain and brought
about a
rapprochement
between Egypt and
Hatti which
culminated in the
signing of a peace
treaty.

8. Building
• Ramses constructed more monuments
than any other pharaoh.
• Ramses also contributed to the building of
the Hypostle Wall.
• Ramses would inscribed messages and
depicted scenes of his own on many
buildings and statues already built.

9. AssessmentAssessment
What unique position was QueenWhat unique position was Queen
Hatshepsut in?Hatshepsut in?
What did Queen Hatshepsut re-What did Queen Hatshepsut re-
established?established?
What was Ramses the Great the firstWhat was Ramses the Great the first
to do?to do?
What did Ramses the Great constructWhat did Ramses the Great construct
more that any other pharaoh?more that any other pharaoh?

10. AnswersAnswers
 She would become pharaoh after her fatherShe would become pharaoh after her father
died.died.
 She re-established trading relationshipsShe re-established trading relationships
 first king in history to sign a peace treatyfirst king in history to sign a peace treaty
with his enemies.with his enemies.
 Ramses constructed more monuments thanRamses constructed more monuments than
any other pharaohany other pharaoh