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Leader of the Pamunkey people in colonised Virginia in the 1600s
Leader of the Pamunkey people in colonised Virginia in the 1600s
The empress consort of Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, and was the first woman to hold the title of Empress of China. She is typically portrayed as the first woman to have ruled over a united China.
Queen Moremi was a renowned Yoruba queen from the Yorubaland region of modern-day southwestern Nigeria.
Queen of Madagascar
Empress Chengtian was one of the most well-known and powerful women in the Liao Dynasty, taking after her aunt Empress Yingtian.
American Revolutionary War heroine
Cross-dressing “Manchester Heroine” of the British army in the 1800s
Spanish-American military heroine
Ethiopian queen who brought down the ruling house of Aksum in the tenth century, a dynasty which was not to rise again until c. 1270.
Aboriginal leader from the nineteenth century that organised an armed resistance against white colonists in now-Tasmania, Australia.