Dbq Gender Roles

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Imagine living in a society where your gender is not only your role in the community but also your access to power, well in ancient times gender allowed people to have power. All ancient societies did not have the same ideas about who could have power and responsibility, because some societies have different rules and some don’t. These ideas evolved because today all societies have the same ideas on which gender gets power. Gender impacted ancient people’s access to power by allowing them to have status power, physical power, and familial power For example, Enheduanna got access to power by being the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon. Doc A says “She was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon” This is important because this is a type of familial power. She …show more content…
Doc A says “Her father appointed her high priestess to the Sumerian goddess Inanna.” This also shows a type of familial power. She got the same amount of power as the Sumerian goddess Inanna because she was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon. Another reason is that Doc C says that women are an important part of their society. “They believe women were regarded as important members of the society,” This is important because this is a type of status power that shows that women were important in their society. Another reason is that Doc D talks about how she is a noble woman. “The inscriptions on the masculine appearing statues of Hatshepsut include her personal name, which means "foremost of noble women. ‘’ This is important because this is a type of status power. After all, it says she is noble, a type of status. Another example is in Doc D, which shows how Hatshepsut restored a bunch of stuff in ancient Egypt. “She reinstated trade with Asia, restored monuments that had fallen into disrepair, and built a vast mortuary complex.” This is important because this is a type of physical