Hatshepsut had nothing to fear when she claimed the throne as king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty. He committed no acts of arrogance or hellish behavior towards his stepson Thutmosis III. Contrary to the belief that she was an evil stepmother and usurper, she protected Thutmose III's succession to the throne. When her husband/brother, the former King Thutmosis II, died unexpectedly and left Hatshepsut with her infant successor, she dutifully protected her family's name's claim to the throne when he became Pharaoh. Thutmosis III was still a child when he did this. Thutmosis III's biological mother was ineligible to regent her son due to her low status. However Hatshepsut, his stepmother, had the skills and know-how to train Thutmosis III to become the next Pharaoh. Meanwhile, Egypt needed a Pharaoh. Since she was the remaining daughter of the war general and former king Thutmosis I, she made a smart political move and proclaimed herself king. Hatshepsut thought that she was the one who qualified to be Pharaoh, made Thutmosis III her co-ruler, and kept the peace. Furthermore, he wanted to avoid a potential power struggle for the throne. Foreign powers such as the Hyksos wished to reconquer Egypt as they had done during the Seventeenth Dynasty. A child king would not have been able to maintain the defense of Egypt, but the daughter of a war general and a pharaoh certainly could. The life of the Egyptian royal court, the environment in which Hatshepsut was raised, followed an ancient tradition of a male pharaoh appointed in the Upper and North. Lower Egypt. He would be a man with great militaristic characteristics, the bridge between the gods and the human world as well as a superhuman; was responsible for agriculture and peacekeeper over all...... middle of paper ......seneb, a secondary wife. It was important to solidify the royal bloodline. Therefore, Thutmosis I and Amose got married. “Thumosis I had taken the name of a moon god. Queen Amose was descended from a royal line so ancient that her earliest known ancestor was the sun. So the little girl Hatshepsut knew she was born with rights acquired in the day and in the night, in the two worlds of heaven and earth and in the two Egypts." Hatshepsut's parents had two children but died before King Thutmosis I. Hatshepsut was the remaining child. In addition to learning about her ancestors and her mother, she learned all about her father Thutmosis I, the military pharaoh. Perhaps it was he who made her inclined towards the military. It appears that Hatshepsut was his favorite daughter and she constantly makes this claim throughout her reign, even saying that her father considered her the rightful heir to the throne.