Hatshepsut learned how to wield the ideological weapon of design from her father. Thutmose I was a successful king, buoyed by the wealth his soldiers stole from Nubia, modern-day Sudan. "The money he brought back from those wars allowed him to build temples, as hundreds of kings had done before him," Cooney writes in her book The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, "but Thutmose I crafted his architecture in stone, not just mud brick." As a young girl, Hatshepsut would have "understood how building programs functioned simultaneously as jobs programs, propaganda machines, and gifts to the gods."