{"product_id":"queens-of-conquest-ruthless-female-rulers-history-was-afraid-of-9798198077607","title":"Queens of Conquest: Ruthless Female Rulers History Was Afraid Of","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Margot Fenn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey conquered empires, defied gods, and rewrote history. And then history tried to erase them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQueens of Conquest\u003c\/b\u003e tells the stories of twelve of the most powerful women who ever lived - rulers whose military genius, political brilliance, and iron will shaped the ancient and medieval world, yet whose names were systematically buried, distorted, or reduced to myth by the men who came after them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWu Zetian governed China as emperor for fifteen years and built the civil service system that lasted fifteen centuries. Tomyris of the Scythians defeated and killed Cyrus the Great - the most powerful conqueror of the ancient world - after warning him exactly what would happen if he didn't retreat. Amanitore of Nubia repelled the Roman army and built temples that still stand. Zenobia of Palmyra conquered Egypt and challenged Rome for two years before the emperor himself had to march against her.  thelfl d of Mercia built the fortified towns and won the battles that made England possible - and was written out of the story by the men who inherited what she built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not sanitise these women or turn them into symbols. It reads their stories through the actual evidence - the coins, the temple reliefs, the administrative records, the legal codes - and asks what the record shows when the propaganda is stripped away. What it shows is rulers: capable, complex, sometimes ruthless, always real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Mary Beard, Bettany Hughes, and Ada Calhoun.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor anyone who has ever wondered what history left out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969153056919,"sku":"9798198077607","price":1437.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198077607.webp?v=1782920655","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/queens-of-conquest-ruthless-female-rulers-history-was-afraid-of-9798198077607","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}