Important names, terms, and concepts (terms are from readings or class last time)

Important names, terms, and concepts

Thebes

"God's Wife of Amun"

Re

oracles

temples (especially Karnak, Deir el-Bahri)

Amun (Amen in Cooney)

Hatshepsut and gender

Hatshepsut and religion

religion and power

Thutmosis III 

Major themes of the NK:

• Foreign policy
• Royal women
• Pharaoh’s divinity
• Popular culture and religion
• Monumental building (esp. temples)
• Funerary practices

Know these dates:

• 3000 BCE approximate unification of Egypt
• 2600s BCE beginning of Old Kingdom
• 2100s BCE end of Old Kingdom
• 2000s BCE beginning of Middle Kingdom
• 1600s BCE end of Middle Kingdom
• 1500s BCE beginning of New Kingdom

 

Discussion Questions

Read in Cooney:

• pp 68-73
• [in between these pages: designation of Thutmosis III as heir, Hatshepsut consolidates power as regent/excludes Thutmosis III's mother]
• 99-126
• 143-171

What is the connection between religion and power in this section? How does Hatshepsut use religious ideology and religious institutions to consolidate her power?

 

 

 

What happens with Hatshepsut's gender? How does use gender to consolidate her authority?

 

 

 

 

What innovations to Egyptian religious traditions and political traditions does Hatshepsut make?

 

 

 

 

 

Bring to class questions you are interested in discussion.