Why did hatshepsut become pharaoh?

Answer 1

Hatshepsut was the chief wife of Thutmose II, who died while his heir was only a child. She ascended to the throne alongside their son, Thutmose III, as co-ruler. Modern scholars, however, cite that Hatshepsut as a strong ruler that far overshadowed her son as the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her drive to challenge tradition was fueled by her claim that her father, Thutmose I, intended her to be his intended heir to the throne.

Answer 2

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Hatshepsut's husband died ("Thutmose II"). He was the Pharaoh and so she took over and ruled for 20 years.

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This appears to be the case, however a joint regnum was unusual in ancient Egypt as it is in most systems of monarchy. The United Kingdom had a joint regnum when the daughter of James II married William Duke of Orange and Parliament invited him to share the crown with Mary II. The latter died before he did so he spent a few years ruling individually as William III. After that, Mary's sister Ann ruled but died without succeeding children surviving and the PArliament then invited George of Hanover to begin a new dynasty although he was descended from a daughter of James I the great grandfather of Mary and Ann. So Hatshepsut appears to have succeeded to the throne in like manner to William III of the UK.

But Hatshepsut and Thutmose II were probably half-brother and -sister. Hatshepsut appears to have been the daughter of an Ethiopian princess that Thutmose married as part of an arangement to unite the thrones of Upper and Lower Egypt or 'Egypt' and 'Ethiopia'. That political union was the response to the chaos brought on by nearly 500 years of Hyksos domination in which Lower Egypt suffered terrible indignity. Never again, the Egyptians resolved, so the union of Egyptians and Ethiopians began to keep Africa for the "Africans".

But the Bible, which refers to Ethiopia (Cush), Egypt (Mitzraim) and Libya (Put), never appears to refer to "Africa". Which is intriguing. But investigation reveals the Bible does refer to "Ophir" about 14 times. The spelling differs in three or four ways (e.g., Auphirah, Aphir, Auphir) but the first of those variations which we could write as Aufricha is almost certainly our modern-day "Africa". At the end of the ninth chapter of the First Book of Kings of the Bible, Solomon's sailors sailed to Ophir (Auphirah) with Hiram's Phoenician (Tyrian) sailors. Then the "Queen" ruling (Sheba-ing) that place (i.e., Ophir-Auphirah) visited Solomon. Only Egypt records a queen of that country leaving to visit Another Country as per the reliefs at Hatshepsut's temple in Deir El Bahari (near Thebes) and only Israel records a queen of another country making a visit to Israel. Since Egypt and Israel were and are immediate neighbours ('next door'), sense and logic demand that the two personnages should be linked. However, according to official Egyptian chronology (of our modern chronologists) Hatshepsut ruled Egypt in circa 1450 BC while Solomon clearly ruled Israel nearer 950 BC. Common sense demands that the dates of one of these must therefore be wrong. The Biblical chronology is much more reputable than the hotch-potch system devised by modern chronologists on the basis of previous generations of chronologists' attempts to present a workable system of ancient Egyptian chronology.

Thus regarding the question, Why did Hatshepsut become pharaoh? we can say that as the Bible said of an earlier pharaoh, i.e., the one who persecuted the Israelites of Moses' day (circa 1485 BC), "God raised up Pharaoh". This is exactly what the "Divine Right of Kings" so famously argued for by Charles I of England and Scotland, grandfather of Mary and Ann above, is all about. Just as Charles claimed certain rights and responsibilities under the Divine Right of Kings, so Hatshepsut probably likewise demanded. But some sort of constitutional agreement written by Thutmose I seems to have been in the background. Hatshepsut was probably crowned "Queen" not just "Queen Consort". In the UK, the wives of a monarch are usually crowned queen but husbands such as Prince Albert of Victoria and Prince Phillip of Elizabeth are only given consort status. When Hatshepsut's husband died she determined to rule alone but Egyptians appear to have regarded the Divine Right of Kings to apply to the male sex only. That caused much friction. Interestingly, when an Ethiopian was baptised in the Book of Acts of the New Testament of the Bible, a queen ruled Ethiopia. Her name is recorded as Candace. Perhaps the Ethiopians were not chauvinistic like the Egyptians.

Answer 3

On the death of her husband. But not without some dissension. However, there is evidence that Hatshepsut and Thutmose II, her husband, were actually half-brother/half-sister. They were both children of Thutmose I but she was daughter be an African wife of Thutmose. In this way the Ethiopian and Semitic clans in Egypt/Ethiopia were united after the expulsion of the Hyksos.

Conventional Egyptology says they reigned in about 1470 BC. Reconstructed Egyptian chronology says they lived around 950 BC and that Hatshepsut was actually the so-called "Queen of Sheba" who visited Solomon. On this analysis, Thutmose I, their father, became Pharaoh on the expulsion of the Hyksos-Amalekites when Saul and David, kings of Israel, successfully defeated the Amalekites in a number of battles between circa 1000 and 970 BC. Thus Hatshepsut was favourably disposed toward Israel.

Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari gives a substantial account of her life-story. That much is agreed. However, depending on the chronology one considers, i.e. Hatshepsut in 1470 BC or 970 BC, the answer to how Hatshepsut became queen changes dramatically. The conventional answer is that she more or less usurped the throne on the death of her husband. That view requires that she should have meekly stood aside for another male off-spring of Thutmose I. That eventually happened to be the case because Thutmose II did become Pharaoh one her death, abdication or overthrow depending on which variation one prefers.

If she was Sheba, her life-story at deir el-Bahari suggests her ascension to the Egyptian throne was quite legal but it required something else for that to acxtually happen. She claims she "heard the voice of a god" inviting her to go to a special land, apparently "God's Land", to see what that God was doing in that place. She obeyed the call, prompting Jesus, in the gospels of Matthew and Luke, to say she pulled out every stop on the basis of just one sign (H'at) to visit that land. Jesus called her the "Queen of the South". The Bible also tells us that rulers do not hold their position if God decides to remove them. The theory of the Divine Right of Kings implies that it is ultimately God who decides who rules us. In all probability, that's how Hatshepsut "became queen".

Answer 4

Hatshepsut had a husband who died and then she wanted to become queen ruler of Egypt, but her stepson Thutmose III was in the way. So Hatshepsut sent Thutmose to training. Then Hatshepsut became pharoah.

Answer 5

As a queen, her husband died. The heir was too young to rule. She ruled co regent with him. After the death of her father at age 12, Hatshepsut married her half-brother Thutmose II, whose mother was a lesser wife -- a common practice meant to ensure the purity of the royal bloodline. During the reign of Thutmose II, Hatshepsut assumed the traditional role of queen and principal wife.

Answer 6

She was the first king pharaoh because she was strong. She also put is use the trade route and became the constructor of the 18th dynasty. After tutmoses 11 died, tutmoses 111 was too young to rule. She put on the fake beard and ruled as a man and she was good at that. Since Thutmose III was too young to assume the throne unaided, Hatshepsut served as his regent. Initially, Hatshepsut bore this role traditionally until, for reasons that are unclear, she claimed the role of pharaoh. Technically, Hatshepsut did not 'usurp' the crown, as Thutmose the III was never deposed and was considered co-ruler throughout her life, but it is clear that Hatshepsut was the principal ruler in power. He was her nephew.

Answer 7

Hatshepsut became pharoah because thotmus III was too young to rule and so Hatshepsut became pharoah and acted like a man for the tradition.

Answer 8

she took the title of pharaoh despite not being entitled to it.

Answer 9

Hatshepsut became Pharaoh because she thought her step son was too young. She helped him rule for a little bit but then she realized that she should become Pharaoh instead..