Hatshepsut's+Acheivments

=Hatshepsut's Acheivments= Hatspsut was a pharaoh with great ambitions, her aim was to grow prosperity and power through exploration, trade and building. During her reign, she organised a 5 fleet trading expedition. Hatsheptsut started sailing from the gulf of Aquba, throught the red sea and south along the coast of Africa to a place called Punt (this is probably somewhere around Somalia or Ethiopia). Becuase Hatshepsut was an educated women who participated in religious ceremonies, she knew what she wanted to obtian from the trade expeditionsso that she can complete these religous ceremonies. One of her missions was to acquire two of the most rare purfumes in the ancient world, Frankincense and Myrrh. The expitition trip Hatshepsut organsied lasted for 2 years. Hatshepsut returned to Egypt with a cargo of cinnamon, Myrrh, ebony, ivory, panther skins, ostrich eggs, live baboons and 31 live frankincense trees, the roots of the trees were bound to the soil from the place they originated from.