Hatshepsut was a woman, daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I. She was married to her step brother Thutmose II, and thus became the queen of Egypt when she was about twelve. Hattshepsut was the longest ruling Pharaoh female, who ruled Egypt, about twenty years in the fifteenth century BC. One of her greatest achievements was the expansion of ancient Egypt's trade routes. Thus Egypt was supplied with gold, wood, ivory, and resin.
Because they wanted to separate from England and wanted to become an independent nation.
One piece of evidence that Duara uses in the passage to support his claim regarding Western racial attitudes and Japanese militarism in the second paragraph is where he says that Japan was allotted a lower quota of ships than the British and Americans.
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Discrimination was perceived in the international conferences in Washington (1922), the London Naval Conference (1930), and wherever Japan was allotted a lower quota of ships than the British and Americans. But most of all, it was the buildup of exclusionary policies in the United States and the final Exclusion Laws prohibiting Japanese immigration in 1924 that galled Japanese nationalists. In their view, Asian civilization did not exhibit inhuman racist attitudes and policies of this kind, and for [Japanese] militants . . . these ingrained civilizational differences would have to be fought out in a final, righteous war of the East against the West.”