At a time when most ancient cultures did not honor women and did not elevate women to positions of power or equal status to men, why do you think Egyptians decided to raise the status of women like Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, or Cleopatra and allow them to be pharaohs in their own right? What made the Egyptian culture more forward-thinking than any of its contemporaries?

At a time when most ancient cultures did not honor women and did not elevate women to positions of power or equal status to men, why do you think Egyptians decided to raise the status of women like Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, or Cleopatra and allow them to be pharaohs in their own right? What made the Egyptian culture more forward-thinking than any of its contemporaries?