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Which Egyptian Queen made the greatest contribution to her country Hatshepsut or Cleopatra?
Title: Which Egyptian Queen made the greatest contribution to her country Hatshepsut or Cleopatra?
Category: History / Ancient History
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Which Egyptian Queen made the greatest contribution to her country Hatshepsut or Cleopatra?
Which Egyptian Queen made the greatest contribution to her country?
Hatshepsut or Cleopatra?
Pharaonic and Ptolemaic Egypt were ruled by a "king," and the Egyptian ideal of succession was from father to son (Shaw, 2003). The female relatives of the ruling king often played significant roles in the rule of Egypt, and the ideology of kingship itself was a careful blend of both male and female elements. Women who ruled autonomously as king were unusual in …showed first 75 words of 1175 total…
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