Why did hatshepsut send armies to Nubia and southwestern

After tutmoses 11 died, tutmoses 111 was too young to rule. She puton the fake beard and ruled with all his stricken. She was thefirst king pharaoh because she was strong. She also put is use thetrade route and became the constructor of the 18thdynasty. In terms of trade, Hatshepsut was not blind to the need ofbolstering Egypt’s economy’ and indeed, the Punt expedition is butthe climax of her consistent trading enterprises with Lebanon,Crete, Syria, West Africa, South Africa, Aswan and the reopening ofmines in Mt. Sinai.