We do have tough Queens in our history, in Nigeria we had Queen Amina of Zaria, she led men to war personally, won tons of battles and was a great leader, many never thought she’d succeed her father to ascend the throne but she did and was a great ruler.
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Gonna definitely look into her I like her mindset off the golden arrow angle.
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Queen Amanirenas is my favorite ruler! Second is Princess Yennenga. Third is Queen Ranavaolona. Of course I adore Queen Nzinga and Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa.
2 days ago | 22
African Queens often held better and more successful reigns than it's Kings for every African King and Queen known there are many more who have been forgotten wonder how great those forgotten Queens must have been.
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Yes the queen who launched a pre-emptive strike into Roman Egypt, overcoming an outnumbered boarder garrison then proceeds to have her armies crushed (twice I think) and having one of her major cities sacked losing as much as she gained before the Romans eventually turned around, not trusting their guides, and marched back to Egypt. Hardly the grand bold success it is often portrayed to be in the short summaries we often see of this event. Rome didn't leave because it couldn't take the province, it left because it wasn't worth the effort to take. Literally every and any other front was more valuable to them.
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She is one of my favorites, I think her story is where the name arrow came from as she was queen of Meroe..its like Arrow with an M.
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The pride before the fall. The Kushite forces stated their invasion was due to an issue with the nomarchs, the provincial governors of Egypt; Strabo does not provide information on what the issue was. After Petronius' victory, the Kushite army fled in various directions: some into the cities, some into the desert, and others onto a nearby island. Strabo ascertains that "among these fugitives were the generals of Queen Candace", queen of the Ethiopians. He describes her as “a masculine sort of woman, and blind in one eye.” Strabo is almost certainly referring to Amanirenas, who bore the title of kandake; "Candace" is a Latinization of her title and does not refer to a separate ruler. After capturing the fleeing forces, Petronius sent them to Alexandria to await judgment. Amanirenas herself resided at Napata with her son. As Petronius approached, taking Pselchis and Premnis along the way, Amanirenas dispatched envoys and the message that she would return both the captives taken in Syene and the statues of Caesar. Her entreaty was ignored and the city was razed. Of the surviving captives he took, some were sold and others sent to Augustus as prisoners of war. In response, Amanirenas led a second attack against the forces of Petronius left behind at Premnis. Strabo states she had “many thousands of men.” Petronius outmaneuvered Amanirenas and arrived at Premnis first, securing it against her attack. Amanirenas sent ambassadors, which Petronius had escorted to Augustus in Samos on his way to Syria. Augustus imposed no further tributes and fulfilled the ambassadors' wishes.
2 days ago | 3
Without History
TOUGH!!!!….
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