Hatshepsut (Civ4)

Hatshepsut
Introduced in Civilization IV
Civilization	Egyptian
Favorite Civic	Organized Religion
Theme Music	Harvest of the Nile (theme from past game, shared with Ramesses)
Traits
Creative +2 per city Double production speed for Theatre and Colosseum
Spiritual There is no anarchy when changing a civic Double production speed for Temple

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Hatshepsut (1508 BC – 1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She leads the Egyptians in Civilization IV.

General Info

Unique Unit: War Chariot

Unique Building: Obelisk

Starting Techs: Agriculture, The Wheel

AI Traits

• Strategy: religion (2) and culture (5).
• Wonder Construct random: 40 (from 0 to 50).
• Base Attitude: 1 (from -1 to 2).
• Base Peace Weight: 9 (from 0 to 10).
• Warmonger Respect: 0 (from 0 to 2).
• Espionage Weight: 100 (from 50 to 150).
• Refuse To Talk War Threshold: 6 (from 6 to 10).
• No Tech Trade Threshold: 10 (from 5 to 20).
• Tech Trade Known Percent: 30% (from 0 to 100).
• Max Gold Trade Percent: 10% (from 5 to 20).
• Max War Rand: 200 (from 50 to 400).
• Raze City Prob: 0 (from 0 to 75).
• Build Unit Prob: 20 (from 0 to 40).
• Close Borders Attitude Change: -2 (from -4 to -2).
• Same Religion Attitude Change Limit: 5 (from 2 to 7).
• Different Religion Attitude Change: -2 (from -2 to 0).
• Favorite Civic Attitude Change Limit: 2 (from 1 to 6).
• Demand tribute will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request help will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request technology will be refused when: furious.
• Request strategic bonus will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request happiness bonus will be refused when: furious.
• Request health bonus will be refused when: furious.
• Request map will be refused when: furious.
• Request declare war will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request declare war them will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request stop trading will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request stop trading them will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request adopt civic will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request convert religion will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Request open borders will be refused when: furious.
• Request defensive pact will be refused when: pleased or worse.
• Request permanent alliance will be refused when: pleased or worse.
• Request vassal will be refused when: cautious or worse.
• Max War Nearby Power Ratio: 90 (from 80 to 130).
• Max War Distant Power Ratio: 50 (from 30 to 100).
• Max War Min Adjacent Land Percent: 3 (from 0 to 4).
• Limited War Rand: 200 (from 40 to 200).
• Limited War Power Ratio: 100 (from 80 to 130).
• Dogpile War Rand: 100 (from 25 to 100).
• Make Peace Rand: 20 (from 10 to 80).
• Demand Rebuked Sneak Prob: 0 (from 0 to 100).
• Demand Rebuked War Prob: 0 (from 0 to 50).
• Base Attack Odds Change: 0 (from 0 to 6).
• Worse Rank Difference Attitude Change: -1 (from -3 to 0).
• Better Rank Difference Attitude Change: 2 (from 0 to 4).
• Share War Attitude Change Limit: 3 (from 2 to 4).
• Vassal Power Modifier: 0 (from -20 to 50).

Quotes

• First meet: Surely the gods have smiled upon you, [Player] - for they have led you to me!
• Refuse to talk: Begone, you lying serpent!
• No peace: Gods do not negotiate with mortals - particularly with ugly little slimeballs such as yourself. Go back to your home to await your doom.
• Greeting (friendly-cautious): Hello again, [Player]. How honored you must be to see me once more.
• Greeting (annoyed-furious): Bow before me, [Player] - a goddess deserves no less!
• Demand (weaker power): I was going to demand that you sacrifice 1000 warriors to my greatness, [Player], but if you prefer, you can give me this.
• Demand (equal power): It is customary for puny mortals to show their devotion by giving their goddess a gift. Or if they prefer they can be cut into small pieces and fed to the royal crocodiles.
• Demand (stronger power): ?

Civilopedia entry

Hatshepsut was born the daughter of King Thutmose I and Queen Ahmose. She became Queen when her father died and her husband (and half-brother) Thutmose II became Pharaoh. She and Thutmose II had a daughter together, but no son, and Thutmose II declared a son he had with a palace concubine to be his heir and successor. Thutmose II died in his early thirties while his son was still a child, and in her early teens Hatshepsut became the young pharaoh's regent, and thus ruler of all Egypt.

Apparently, Hatshepsut liked the job and decided that she wanted to keep it. Declaring that the gods had appointed her as her husband's successor, she declared herself "King of Upper and Lower Egypt" and began wearing all of the trappings of a King, including a false beard. She didn't kill her husband's son, and some evidence suggests that they became co-rulers, Thutmose III in charge of the military, while Hatshepsut concentrated upon improving Egypt's commerce and infrastructure, and upon religious matters.

Hatshepsut is known to have greatly expanded Egypt's commerce with Asia, Nubia and Libya, and she sent expeditions to far-off places that Egypt had never traded with before. She repaired many of Egypt's temples and secular buildings that had been severely damaged by invasion in years past. She constructed many obelisks and statues, and a striking mortuary building for herself and her father.

Hatshepsut died sometime around 1450 BC, apparently of natural causes.

Trivia

• Hatshepsut's look is based more on the Nefertiti Bust than on any historical portrayal of her. She posed for official portrayals wearing male clothing and a false beard, as well as the nemes (although she is also depicted dressed as other noblewomen of the time).
• The background depicts the Pyramids of Giza, still white stoned and having a golden top along with a mortuary temple.

See also

• Hatshepsut in other games