Follow up question: the Ottoman and various chinese dynasties had harems where concubines competed for political influence, and occasionally one concubine rose to the top of the entire governemnt, fir example Wu Zetian. What happened to the institution of the harem during the these periods? Were all the other concubines exiled/executed or just the ones who posed a threat to the supreme concubine?

Can I ask another follow-up?

I know that there was a female pharaoh, Hatshepsut, who ruled. While she had a husband (Thutmose II), many pharaohs had "secondary wives." Is there any evidence she had secondary husbands? Is there evidence of secondary husband behaviours among other women who took power in context with secondary wives?

thank you historians