Ancient History sample essay for "Assess the significance of the Warrior Pharaoh image during this period.... This is evidence to support the great importance placed on the "warrior" image by Pharaohs themselves. ... It became a "warrior Pharaoh" myth and was fuelled by the battle wounds of Seqenenre Tao II. ... Hatshepsut, the female queen, also made historians such as Breasted and Gardiner question the "warrior Pharaoh" image because she was a woman. ... So it can be seen that, although originally though impossible, Hatshepsut did maintain the "wa...

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In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to the underworld realm of Mictlan. ... Sacrificing a person to the Aztec, warrior-god Huitzilopochtli was a way for warriors to move up in the social class hierarchy. ...

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One can easily imagine the state of mind of a warrior or any freeman whose condition through defeat in war radically changes from one day to the next, as he becomes a slave: as in classical antiquity, prisoners of war were automatically subject to being sold. ...

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