Week 5 History Essay

        Today, I will share with you my favorite Pharaoh I learned about this week and what they accomplished. It was hard to pick, because there are so many great pharaohs. However, I finally made up my mind to choose the one and only, Pharaoh/Queen Hatshepsut.

         Pharaoh Hatshepsut, also known as the “Queen of Sheba” was the first female Pharaoh in Egypt. However, she wasn’t automatically queen. At first, she married her brother, and he was the pharaoh. In Ancient Egypt, children of the Pharaoh would marry each other to keep their blood clean and to keep the dynasty. After her brother/husband died, she waited seven years before she announced that she was going to be the next pharaoh.

          Hatshepsut was a great Pharaoh. She built lots of still-standing temples, which must have been very important to her. Her sister, Nefrubidy, married King Solomon, the son of King David, so Hatshepsut visited him a couple times.

           Her father’s name was Thutmose, and she lived during the 18th Dynasty. A dynasty, if you don’t know, is a sequence of rulers in the same family reigning for generations. When a pharaoh died childless, or some other situation where there is not another heir to be pharaoh, the dynasty is ended and someone new, not related to the previous pharaoh, now is to rule.

          I liked this topic, and I enjoyed writing this essay. As I said before, it was hard to choose which pharaoh or building I liked the best, however, I chose Queen Hatshepsut. She became pharaoh after waiting seven years after her husband died. The “Queen of Sheba” was a great ruler and built lots of temples that are still standing today. Her sister, Nefrubity, married King Solomon, so she visited him and built a relationship with him and his family. Altogether, I liked writing this essay, and I cannot wait to see what I am going to write about next week.