Queen Hatshepsut DBQ
Joan Espino
Period 7
11/19/10
Ms. An
AP World History
DBQ Essay # 1 (Final)
Queen Hatshepsut was the first female pharaoh who ruled Egypt. She reigned during 1473 – 1458 B.C.E. She first served as co-ruler with her stepson Tuthmosis III, but later took power as a pharaoh herself. Although she was a great ruler, the idea of having a female ruler was unfamiliar to Egyptians and it unsettled them. As an effort to present her in unthreatening guise to make Egyptians feel more at ease, artists depicted Queen Hatshepsut as a male wearing the stylized beards that are traditionally associated with pharaohs. This gesture shows how females are subordinate to males because they did not feel comfortable that their nation was being led by a female. That is why most societies turned to patriarchal rule. This gesture also showed how they did not respect Queen Hatshepsut because they altered her image as a male. Many societies indicated women’s subordination to men’s status through documents showing how women were not able to participate in government duties, not being allowed a proper education and the inequality between slave men and slave women. Many civilizations such as the Aryan, Chinese and the Mesopotamian societies are examples of …show more content…
According to the Book of Exodus, “When you purchase a Hebrew as a slave, he will be your slave for six years; in the seventh year he is to go free without paying anything”, men are able to be set free by buying their freedom or be set free by their owners but another law according to Document 5 states that, “When a man sells his daughter into slavery, she is not to go free as a male slave may (Doc. 5)”, slave women cannot be given freedom while slave men can. I think that these laws are unfair because women do not have a choice at all which makes them more subordinate to
Period 7
11/19/10
Ms. An
AP World History
DBQ Essay # 1 (Final)
Queen Hatshepsut was the first female pharaoh who ruled Egypt. She reigned during 1473 – 1458 B.C.E. She first served as co-ruler with her stepson Tuthmosis III, but later took power as a pharaoh herself. Although she was a great ruler, the idea of having a female ruler was unfamiliar to Egyptians and it unsettled them. As an effort to present her in unthreatening guise to make Egyptians feel more at ease, artists depicted Queen Hatshepsut as a male wearing the stylized beards that are traditionally associated with pharaohs. This gesture shows how females are subordinate to males because they did not feel comfortable that their nation was being led by a female. That is why most societies turned to patriarchal rule. This gesture also showed how they did not respect Queen Hatshepsut because they altered her image as a male. Many societies indicated women’s subordination to men’s status through documents showing how women were not able to participate in government duties, not being allowed a proper education and the inequality between slave men and slave women. Many civilizations such as the Aryan, Chinese and the Mesopotamian societies are examples of …show more content…
According to the Book of Exodus, “When you purchase a Hebrew as a slave, he will be your slave for six years; in the seventh year he is to go free without paying anything”, men are able to be set free by buying their freedom or be set free by their owners but another law according to Document 5 states that, “When a man sells his daughter into slavery, she is not to go free as a male slave may (Doc. 5)”, slave women cannot be given freedom while slave men can. I think that these laws are unfair because women do not have a choice at all which makes them more subordinate to