Hatshepsut's Achievements
- Hatshepsut launched a massive building program
- She repaired the damage caused by the Hyksos
- Hatshepsut rebuilt magnificent temples and structures
- She renovated her father's hall in the temple of Karnak
- She built four great obelisks that reached 30m high
- Hatshepsut's greatest legacy was her mortuary temple
- Traditionally, Egyptian kings defended their land against the enemies who lurked at Egypt's border
- Hatshepsut had made a foreign policy was based on trade rather than war and conflict.
- In Hatshepsut's temple there was scenes on the wall of a short but very successful military campaign to Nubia
- A trading centre on the East African coast beyond the south most part of the Red Sea Gold, ebony animal skins, processed myrrh, baboons and livings myrrh trees were transported back to Egyp
- Within Thebes it was focused on temples of her divine father
Cleopatra's Achievements
- Cleopatra consummated liaison with Julius Caesar the cemented her hold on the throne
- Cleopatra was well-educated and clever she could speak various languages and served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies
- From political history to religious customs of Cleopatra, the most important industries of Egypt’s economy, and the sacred triad of deities that Greeks and Egyptians joined together to worship
- Cleopatra had Julius Caesar 's son Caesarian who co ruled in her name
- After Caesar's assassination Cleopatra aligned herself with Mark Antony
- After losing the battle of Actium to Octavian's army, Mark Antony committed suicide. Cleopatra also killed herself by a bite from a asp (snake bite)
- After Cleopatra committed suicide her son Caesarian was declared the pharaoh, he was soon killed by Octavian's forces and Egypt became a Roman province