Empress

The Last Empress by Daniele Varè The Empress Dowager Tzi-his (1835-1908) was a unique ruler unlike any other China had ever seen. She is considered to be one of the most influential people in Chinese history, a rarity in the male dominated Chinese world. The empress dowager exerted great power over the Chinese empire and influenced the political structure in ways it had never been influenced before, making many great reforms that she believed would help the Chinese people. Born on November

Brown History of Asia January 29, 2015 Word Count: 1507 Empress Dowager Cixi: The Dragon Lady In November 29, 1835, a girl was born to a noble Manchu family in China. Her birth name was not recorded, but many people now remember her as Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1849, when she was fourteen, she was one of 60 nominees for the position of imperial concubine. Fortunately, after a two-year preparation period, she was selected by the current Empress Dowager and would serve Emperor Xian Feng as a fourth-rank

The Disputed Reign of Dowager Empress Tz’u-hsi Historical record is not always an accurate representation of fact. An example of this would be the long reign of the Dowager Empress Tz’u-hsi, in which there were hundreds of documents written about her life. These documents have been taken and used in the production of numerous books, especially among Western historians. It was these early historians who have established the widely accepted perspective that Tz’u-hsi hungered for power, abused

----------------------------------------- Empress dowager’s wing Zhing, “Empress Dowager, have you heard the news?!” The Empress Dowager glares at Zhing and sneers, “Of course I have!” Zhing, “Empress Dowager, what do think of the emperor’s current male concubine?” As the empress dowager shot Zhing another cold glare and lifts her chin up and says, “The emperor is probably just curious and playing around”

Daja Kisubo is a Trader. Her people travel to different lands buying and selling items. Very early in her life she and her family were on a ship that sank, and Daja was the only survivor. She was an outcast from her people for being only survivor, and from all the others for her heritage, being an African American girl, and for being an orphan. I chose the song “Bulletproof” by La Roux to relate to Daja. The song is originally written about being resilient towards another person hurting you, but

The thesis of C.E Mallet’s article “The Empress Theodora” focuses upon trying to vindicate Empress Theodora’s reputation by examining evidence brought against her by Procopius in his work Secret History. The structure of the argument entails the author presenting evidence from historians of Byzantium (primarily using Procopius) and contrasting them against accounts of records of Theodora’s time as well as findings of contemporary historians. Mallet presents accusations made by Procopius in Secret

Essay: Cleopatra and Empress Wu Zetian Silke Karla Vinyard Strayer University Professor Mayhall HUM111346SC034-1164-001 (World Cultures 1) May 24, 2016 Cleopatra and Empress Wu Zetian Cleopatra and Empress Wu Zetian were two very powerful women of their time. Cleopatra, Last Pharaoh of Egypt. As queen of Egypt, Cleopatra is one of the most famous female rulers in history. Cleopatra’s family ruled Eygpt for more than 100 years before she was born around 69 BC. Empress Wu Zetian of Tang

most powerful empresses in Byzantine history. Theodora was born in the 5th century AD and married Justinian. She was known as empress of Byzantium and was one of the most influential and powerful woman in Byzantine history due to her success of ruling the empire, stunning beauty and quick wits. “The Constantinople of the opening decades of the sixth century, which the empress Theodora knew as a child, was a cosmopolitan city where wealth and poverty rubbed shoulders and palaces, workshops, monasteries

and differently in the rule of Chinese Empress Wu and England’s Queen Elizabeth I. The megalomaniacal Empress Wu has garnered sizable attention for being the first and only empress of China and for her devious methods to gain the title and violent tendencies to keep it. Queen Elizabeth has been praised for becoming

History. Procopius’ hostile portrayal of Empress Theodora in his Anecdota represents his aim to defame of her husband Justinian as well as to express his personal objections to Theodora’s legitimacy and authority. His animosity towards Justinian, illustrated through Theodora, is largely due to his frustration and disappointment at the emperor’s political, military, and religious policies,