Women Who Made History

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In partnership with The Woman Cards, we bring you THE HISTORY-MAKERS Deck, celebrating 13 of the coolest and most inspiring women in world history! This video gives a (very quick) rundown of who's who and why they're in the deck.

Chapters:
0:00 - 0:42 Intro
0:42 - 1:14 Tomoe Gozen
1:14 - 1:45 Gargi Vachaknavi
1:45 - 2:21 Zenobia
2:21 - 2:57 Hatshepsut
2:57 - 3:29 Hildegard of Bingen
3:29 - 4:04 Sappho of Lesbos
4:04 - 4:37 Lubna of Cordoba
4:37 - 5:08 Ching Shih
5:08 - 5:42 Anna Komnene
5:42 - 6:15 Boudica
6:15 - 6:48 Lili'uokalani
6:48 - 7:20 Eleanor of Aquitaine
7:20 - 7:53 Cleopatra
7:53 - 8:46 Conclusion

Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up.

[bastienhamilton]

Speaking of the long game, I would like to point out to the audience that not only did Eleanor of Aquitaine outlive both her husband and 4 out of 5 of her sons, she lived till she was 80. IN THE 13TH BLOODY CENTURY

[Dee-jpek]

"I'm retiring. You're welcome" Has to be the biggest flex of any criminal in history.

[asprinjuice]

I really appreciate this channel's efforts to ensure that Cleopatra isn't just remembered for beauty or incest or whatever, but for being a seriously powerful and intelligent woman of her time.

[acecat]

To people talking at Blue for forgetting someone awesome- please remember he's just doing intros for the people included in the cards, and probably didn't choose the deck. Though, you know, please keep listing awesome women in the comments so we can all go read up on them more because this was never going to be enough and that's okay.

[inteligentidiot]

Red really outdid herself with the character drawings this time. Seriously love Tomoe's chill expression.

[michaelscott]

There's a legend/account of a woman in Jamaica, Nana of the Mountains(?), (can't quite remember her name, if she ever had one), from the 16, 1700's-ish I think, who fought British imperialism and freed slaves from the plantations, and was so terrifying and so successful that _to this day, _ the mountain region she claimed and controlled as a safe haven for runaway slaves is treated as its own sovereign territory by Jamaican and international law.

[more_beans]

Another notable female historical figure is Gráinne Mhaol, pirate queen of Ireland! She's got quite the story :)

[Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

*People who play Fate:* "You know, I'm something of an expert on powerful historical women myself."
*Blue:* "Oh?"
"Yeah. Like Tomoe Gozen."
*Blue:* "Nice."
"Zenobia..."
*Blue:* "Sweet."
"Cleopatra..."
*Blue:* "Of course."
"Francis Drake..."
*Blue:* "What?"
"King Arthur..."
*Blue:* "No."
"Ushiwakamaru..."
*Blue:* "Stop."
"Nero Claudius..."
*Blue:* "That is so wrong on so many levels..."

[taylorjoseph]

My spouse told me the story of the Trung sisters of Vietnam.
Similar to Boudica, they were under brutal Chinese rule until they revolted and took the territory back. The elder sister ruled for two years until a significant army was mustered by China and retook Vietnam.
Some accounts say they committed suicide after their defeat, others say they were captured and beheaded.
But the story lives on and there is a statue of them to this day.

[alehaim]

It's criminal to forget St Olga of the Kievan Rus. She became a regent of the Kievan Rus and basically was a bad add and brutal regent leader of the Kievan Rus and even after her regency she kept great power as I remember

[jordanscott]

I love Hildegard von Bingen and I’ve been lucky enough to perform her music in cathedrals a couple times! My favorite bit about her is that men at the time were so confused as to how she could possibly be smarter than all of them, that they concluded she just had to have been given divine abilities directly from God!

[FanOfMostEverything]

I picked the female avatar in Pokémon Shield for her hat—it's a good hat!—and named her Boudica. When I got all but crowned queen in the postgame, it felt like a lovely bit of postmortem vengeance for her namesake.

[bastienhamilton]

Seriously, both my girl Hildegard von Bingen and the utter QUEEN that was Eleanor of Aquitaine in one video?! Today is an excellent day.

[alexandrapedersen]

A very notable woman from my country's history is Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Norway and Sweden who not only managed to become queen regnant in three countries where this wasn't legally possible but also founded a union between them which lasted for more than a century.

[kylewilliams]

Some other great women from history:
Khutulun - Mongol Empire
Lozen - Apache
Olga of Kiev - Kievan Rus
Fu Hao - Shang Dynasty
Trưng Sisters - Vietnam
Börte - Mongol Empire
Theodora - Byzantine Empire
Tomyris - Scythians

Each one of them great in their own right.

[lewycraft]

Kind of sad that no Slavic representation got on the list, would love to have Jadwiga Adegaweńska, king of Poland here or Milunka Savić, most decorated female combatant in the recorded history or warfare, comming from Serbia... Heck, even Catherine the Great of Russia, probably among 3 most influencial and important Russian monarchs in the history.

[sabertoothkim]

Scrolling through this comments section and finding person after person enthusiastically sharing all their favorite female historical figures who didn't make it into the deck/video has really made my day. Thank you so much, everybody!

[mutantmaster]

Olga of Kiev
woman was a combination of Doom Guy and a 4-D chess game with how she handled all the people who wanted to court her and the land she held

[hitrapperandartistdababy]

Should have included Theodora, Wife of Justinian the 1st. Propably my favourite woman of history. Utter badass, competent politician and even married for love

[MysteriumArcanum]

I think if you ever did another one of these another woman you can talk about is Milunka Savic, a Serbian woman who pulled a Mulan to join the army in place of her brother in WWI. Oh, and she also just so happens to be the most decorated female soldier in history.