NEFERTITI AND HATSHEPSUT

HOW HATSHEPSUT BECOME A PHAROAH

• This was a standard practice but Hatshepsut
• Surprised everybody by grabbing sole power
• For herself and declaring herself a pharaoh

WHAT DID HATSHEPSUT DO TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO FOLLOW HER

• She dressed as a man and convinced
• People she was a pharaoh and people
• Followed her

EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED AFTER HATSHEPSUT DIED

• Her stepson tuthmosis III,finally gained
• The throne that had been rightfully his for decades

DISCUSS HOW NERFERTITI IS ASSOCIATED WITH BEING ROYAL

• She had grown close to the royal family
• Some evidence suggest that her father has the
• Powerful courtier ay advisors to three pharaoh including
• Akhenaten Nefertiti husband.

INFER WHY WE DO NOT KNOW A LOT ABOUT nEFERTITI

• In the twelfth year of Akenhaten's reign and
• At The height of Nefertiti powers, she vanished
• From history altogether.

RESOURCE

• http://www.pbs.org/empires/egypt/newkingdom/workers.html