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** Egyptian Kingship **

` By: Delaney Smith and Claire Going

 Egypt Pharohs 1. Hatshepsut was a very famous Egyptian Pharaoh.
 * Hatshepsut was very wise and many people liked her as a ruler. She had absolute power over her kingdom.
 * She lived from 1540-1481 B.C. After her husband died, she took power for twenty years.
 * She was married to her half-brother, Thutmose II. He was king with her. She was the fifth egytian queen of the 18th dynasty. [|Hashepsut Video!]

2. Menes, The king of Memphis 3. The Rulers of Egypt [|Rulers of Egypt Timeline]
 * Menes was a king. He built the city named Memphis, and he chose its location in the nile. Memphis is in present day Cairo.
 * He was the founding king of the first dynasty, and was the first king to unify the upper and lower egypt into one whole kingdom.
 * His chief wife was named Queen Berenib.
 * Usually, the title of pharoh was always a man, but sometimes, women could take controll of the wealth and power of a great civilization.
 * Women also wore fake beards as a tradition.

Works Cited "Hatshepsut: The Queen Who Became King." __Hatshepsut: The Queen Who Became King__. ."List of Rulers: Ancient Egypt and Nubia." Oct. 2002. 16 Jan. 2009.__Wikipedia__. 16 Jan. 2009 <[|http://www.wikipedia.org]>.