Hatshepsut’s contribution was important to the construction of Egypt as a major imperial power and intern the greatness of Egypt. Her reign was prosperous for the economy, architecture and standard of living for the Egyptian people and layed the foundation for Thutmosis III’s Egyptian Empire. Hatshepsut’s development of Egypt internally allowed her nephew Thutmosis III to engage upon the best imperial expansion policy Egypt ever had. Her reign additionally brought political stability. Furthermore her reign will forever be immortalized in the architectural splendor of her mortuary temple, Der el Bahari. Although pursuing an isolationist-conservative policy she still maintained a strong military prowess. Therefore in light of Hatshepsut’s major contributions to Egypt, her innovation and intelligence was to Egypt important to the greatness of it.
Hatshepsut’s contribution to Egyptian architecture was her defining achievement and thus was a greatly important contribution to the greatness of Egypt. Hatshepsut left her own unique imprint on Egyptian architecture, as quoted by Naville “the works of art from her reign, display the imprint of an individual novel taste, which must be none other than that of the divine being who occupied the Horus-throne”(Naville, 1906:p.76). As a result of the flourishing economy Hatshepsut lavished out in a series of building campaigns. She invested wealth back it to the people of Egypt as quoted by Redforde “(she shall) build your chapels and sanctify your homes” (Reforde, 1967:p82). Furthermore she renovated and improved existing temples and carried on much of father, Thutmosis I’s work in the temple of Karnak and fixed damages exerted by the Hyksos in early dynasties, she claimed that “she restored the damage wrought by the Hyksos during their rule in Egypt” (http://members.tripod.com/~ib205/hatshepsut.html(20/5/04). By improving the standard iving of the ordinary Egyptian, Hatshepsut brought stability to the nation. At Beni-Hasan,...