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Kumbwada has been ruled by women for at least six successive generations. [34] Magajiya Maimuna [34] Grandmother of Hajiya Haidzatu Ahmed [34] Hajiya Haidzatu Ahmed; Ondo Kingdom. Pupupu, founder and ruler of the Ondo Kingdom c. 1510. Oyo Empire. Orompoto (reigned c. 1555 –1575) – Succeeded her brother Eguguojo to the throne. Zazzau
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
Female weavers from Tomb of Khnumhotep circa 1897–1878 B.C. Period:Middle Kingdom Dynasty:12th dynasty Reign: reign of Senwosret II. In the Old Kingdom wealthy women often owned their own households. There were working men and women side by side, and it is not uncommon to find in the staff of a women's household other women with ...
Parkinson and Morenz also speculate that written works of the Middle Kingdom were transcriptions of the oral literature of the Old Kingdom. [112] It is known that some oral poetry was preserved in later writing; for example, litter-bearers' songs were preserved as written verses in tomb inscriptions of the Old Kingdom.
They called themselves Canaanites and referred to their land as Canaan, but the territory they occupied was notably smaller than that of Bronze Age Canaan. [7] The name Phoenicia is an ancient Greek exonym that did not correspond precisely to a cohesive culture or society as it would have been understood natively.
In 332 BC, Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, conquered Egypt, which at the time was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire later called Egypt's Thirty-first Dynasty. [16] He visited Memphis, and travelled to the oracle of Amun at the Siwa Oasis. The oracle declared him to be the son of Amun.
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is one of the authors of classical Greece who took a particular interest in the condition of women within the Greek world. In a predominantly patriarchal society, he undertook, through his works, to explore and sometimes challenge the injustices faced by women and certain social or moral norms concerning them.
Women were healers and engaged in medical practices. In 12th-century Salerno, Italy, Trota wrote one of the Trotula texts on diseases of women. [30] Her text, Treatments for Women, addressed events in childbirth that called for medical attention. The book was a compilation of three original texts and quickly became the basis for the medical ...