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
Yeah she totally exposed the gaping holes in the Qing's naval defenses. If they had taken that opportunity to correct their mistakes (maybe even hire her to teach their navy), maybe the British would've had a harder time
@@dragonfell5078 they wouldn't have that hard a time, the brits had one of the best land armies which could easily defeat the qing even without naval support
@@Cecilia-ky3uw they did but the british didnt have logistics on their side. it was only because of the sheer ineptitude and technological gap wider than the grand canyon (brought on entirely by chinese hubris) that let the british go ham. contrast the Zulus or hell the native americans, who gave the british a hard time even with an even larger tech gap just because they werent led by incompetents. contrast japan, which took one look at the absolute reaming the brits gave to china, looked at the bunch of american ships in tokyo bay, and instantly said "we are going to modernize the SHIT out of our society" and rose to become one of the only true modern era asian colonial powers. and since china REALLY sucks at learning from their own history, they AGAIN got pantsed by a foreign power (this time japan). literally the only thing that was keeping the us and russia from carving china up like a christmas ham after WW2 was that the country was SO fucked up no one had the stamina to deal with it. it's even why MacArthur ended up getting fired when he thought to try to invade China. china has beautiful art and culture, a robust history, and some of the shittiest government policies in human history.
@@kyuven The only true mistake is the one where nothing is learned. So China boutta get slapped by their asian parents because THEY A FAILYAH jokes aside, china is beautiful, but their government would be outclassed by fucking Mordor and it's depressing. China is whole again... THEN IT BROKE AGAIN
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.
Despite the problems I do have with her that is a fair point, if you're going to lose to anybody you will lose to Augustus. He even ran Egypt better than her and turned it into one of the most profitable provinces in the Empire
@@atticusp6592 Extracting more income out of a province doesn't necessarily mean running it better. Cleopatra clearly was more present and more personally active in Egypt, periodically travelling up the Nile to strengthen local support, whereas Augustus and his governors were mostly just present in and around Alexandria, maybe as far south as where Cairo lies today. And in terms of finances, it is totally possible that Cleopatra's plan was to extract less wealth out of her realm now in order to allow more growth in the region, as a sort of investment into the future.
@@franzluggin398 You mean by how Augustus improved it's infrastructure and promoted trade? That and it didn't hurt that it's rulers didn't need to rely on foreign support to have any semblance of stability. Whatever Cleopatra had planned doesn't really matter in the face of what Augustus actually did. To her credit she was arguably among the most competent members of her dynasty and the situation she inherited was not especially desirable but I cannot help but think that she could have made better use of her time, instead of drinking pearls in wine she could have improved the running of her Kingdom.
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.
The whole lot was actually really awesome not just the sisters once they took power their main female general was years a head of them she fled to the mountains and already had a sizable army training to take on China itself by the time the one sister became queen and both of them decided to get back at China. Their General was hardcore but what is also unique is that they had 37 female generals for the entire affair it's the most recorded female generalship ever recorded. When China finally bared down on them after a prolonged years of battles the hardcore female general gave birth during this final battle she'd not stopped fighting her whole pregnancy and decided why give up now? She strapped the baby to her chest and went into the fray no one knows if the sisters died, committed suicide, drowned in a river crossing, ran off as they were not amongst the dead recorded but the whole affair should be many movies like we keep getting spammed on D-day IMO so many many women to follow perspective wise you'd be able to really keep remakes fresh. but I guess that's the point Hollywood doesn't want to follow women in battle perspectives often they think like they thought in the civil war if women are seen doing combat and talked about positively or shown doing their brave deeds women will get it in their heads to fight too that's an actually thing they said during the civil war hence the shamming of any ousted women in battle.
The elder sister's husband was also captured and use by the army of Chinese at that time which was the Han Dynasty's to force a surrender from her. She did not faze. A weird, odd and somewhat apocryphal detail is that they lose to Chinese male soldiers who fought naked or sth. Weird point but kinda iconic.
Man, the Witch-Hunt-Persectution of innocent Russian People is f-ing Disgusting. America at it’s Worst. Seen Some More News newest video? The One about Ukraine? It covers people being so f-ing stupid they pee on maybe-but-not-actually-russian People’s doormats cause being petty is not cringey-as-f-ck, apparently, but actually ‚cool’. Even if the guy who didnt deserve it cause being Russian isnt evil ISNT EVEN RUSSIAN ANYWAY. If you have 0 Endurance, then watch just the part of the video covering the thing I just ranted-about: Minute 34-38.
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.
While I’m sure this is just fantastical hearsay, but according to legend Grandy Nanny could catch bullets and canon fire, so the British army crafted a silver canon ball just for her and fired. She catches the thing in her teeth, and decides to keep it as a souvenir.
hi, Jamaican here, that would be Nanny of the Maroons! and she's not a legend, she was a very real person, and recognized as a National Heroine of Jamaica. she was a war general, and excelled at guerilla warfare, giving the British the run around for years upon years. The area she claimed is called Accompong, and is one of 4 Maroon Towns on the island.
@@Jamie-A My mistake, I’m sorry. I did not mean to imply that Grandy Nanny was a myth. I meant to say that her ability to catch cannonballs and bullets might have been slightly exaggerated.
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.
Actually, Blue said in the podcast that he did pick which women appeared in the deck. Though, he also said he didn't pick any women that already appeared in the 3 previous decks The Women Cards have made.
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!
Well, all abilities would have been viewed as ultimately divine favor as all flowed from God. But she was very much an integrated part of the medieval systems of power as abbess, and as such not easily ignored or dismissed. And her mountains of correspondence show us that she was respected by very powerful men, even if she routinely sassed them. I guess being challenged in a letter doesn't carry the same threat as public chastisement. And hard words from a famously pious polymath likely go down better than some upstart monk who suddenly shakes the foundations of Catholicism.
If you like Eleanor, I recommend the film The Lion in Winter (assuming you haven't seen it already), where she is stunningly played by Katharine Hepburn; a role for which she deservingly won an Academy Award.
Man, the Witch-Hunt-Persectution of innocent Russian People is f-ing Disgusting. America at it’s Worst. Seen Some More News newest video? The One about Ukraine? It covers people being so f-ing stupid they pee on maybe-but-not-actually-russian People’s doormats cause being petty is not cringey-as-f-ck, apparently, but actually ‚cool’. Even if the guy who didnt deserve it cause being Russian isnt evil ISNT EVEN RUSSIAN ANYWAY.
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.
*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..."
I'm of two minds on that;, it'd have been cool if they all were women, but to the degree they've been sexualized in the game is kind of offputting. Just saying.
All these amazing women in history and fate just jump straight to turning half of the men into women, or "trap", or some kind of literal nonsense of sex/gender that for some reasons looks like women
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.
Boudica's husband had only been allowed to remain king because he had agreed with the Romans when they invaded that he would be the last of his line and not cause any trouble. His will was in direct contradiction to that agreement to collaborate with the new regime. Also, when you want to throw an ultimatum at the Roman Emperor, first check whether it is Nero. Boudica could have retired a rich and influential Roman citizen. She preferred to make demands that any politically savvy British chief would know would bring retribution. Then she tortured and killed many ordinary people who were doing the same that she had as a Roman citizen for two decades but they had vastly less money. Boudica was a very successful war criminal, she slaughtered many, many more civilians than soldiers. She became a symbolic hero of noble British resistance to the British Empire when the Victorians got sentimental about British history. Caractacus was a better example of a king and rebel warrior, who gave us the nucleus of the myth of King Arthur.
@@pattheplanter I mean, fair enough, but I feel like that comment would work better on its own rather than a reply to how I fell prey to the siren song of a tam o' shanter.
@@FanOfMostEverything There are 919 comments already, I felt my comment would work better by parasitising the popularity of yours. Sorry. The hat love was an innocent victim. The concept of Boudica needing any more vengeance than she already took from innocent bystanders seemed strange to me, when you know the full story.
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
Also, if memory serves me right, she was also instrumental in introducing Christianity to the region, hence why she was canonized by the Orthodox Church.
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.
Adding to this impressive list: Marie-Thérèse Figueur - Female French soldier serving from 1793 to 1815 Running Eagle - Blackfeet tribe war chief Elizabeth Cochran/Nellie Bly - American investigative journalist Virginia Hall - WWII spy for the Allied forces Locusta - Roman assassin known as the Poisoner Marie Curie - Polish & naturalized-French scientist Mochizuki Chiyome - Japanese leader of female ninjas
Would like to add Julie d’Aubigny, a master swordswoman and opera singer from France who spent her relatively short life destroying any man who dared challenge her to a sword fight, briefly becoming a nun so she could hook up with and then break out her at-the-time girlfriend, running from the law, and just generally being a total badass.
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.
Well, there are tons of famous women who didn't make the list. Marie Curie, Jeanne D'Arc, Margret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, etc. Blue had the hard task to pick ten out of the hundreds or thousands there are.
It's all about bullshit representation. Apparently it's better to include a librarian, a scholar and a queen who wasn't a queen than include women who ACTUALLY changed the world.
Or, you know, maybe it's important to showcase some of the other important women throughout history instead of just talking about the ones everyone already knows about
Should have included Theodora, Wife of Justinian the 1st. Propably my favourite woman of history. Utter badass, competent politician and even married for love
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!
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
@@dragon12234 Kyiv isn't the original, it's just the way it's pronounced in modern Ukrainian language so they want people to use it to assert their independence from Russia. In Old Ukranian it is written as Києвъ
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.
I mean there are quite a lot of women who pulled a Mulan to go to army it makes more sense to make an episode solely about them since most of them actually contributed not that much to the actual flow of history and it's their acts that are respectable not amount of contribution
One of my favorites is Queen Amanirenas. The one eyed Kushite Kandake who fought Rome. Not only did she beat Rome at first, she got them to agree to a peace treaty that mostly favored the Kushitic people.
Just did a five second Wikipedia search. Emmy Noether made many advancements in abstract algebra, discovered Noether's theorem which is fundamental to mathematical physics, and according to multiple major mathematicians and physicists, Einstein included, was considered the single most important woman in the history of mathematics.
It's a very roundabout way of influencing history but Clotilde, wife of Clovis I played a large part in establishing Catholicism as the majority sect of European Christianity. The Franks that weren't pagan mostly followed Arian Christianity but Clotilde, being from an area just northwest of Italy, followed what was at the time the mainline orthodox Christianity. She raised her children in that form of Christianity and played a major role in convincing her husband to convert. Clovis would go on to conquer large swaths of territory in what is now modern France and Germany, and the Frankish Kingdom this established would, a few centuries later, have its king crowned as Emperor: Charlemagne.
This is an interesting project, I hope we can get a second deck of cards in the future with a similar idea (or a part 2). The first women who made history that came to my mind was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a writer, philosopher, nun and nurse that lived on New Spain (Mexico) during the colonial era. She grew up the americas, learning from a young age, thanks to her family's library, she became fluent in Latin and Nahuatl, wrote a lot of good plays and poems. Like Hildegard of Bingen, she became part of the Catholic church, but she was always at odds with them. "Foolish men who accuse women without reason, without seeing that you are the reason of the very thing you blame." Her criticism of misogyny and the hypocrisy of men led to her condemnation by the church, she told them that God would not have given women intelect, if he didn't want them to use it. After that, she was forced to only work on charity, nursing the poor, had to sell all of her books, was no longer permitted to write and had to renew her vows. She did as she was told, getting bad mouthed by everyone around her, calling her a bad example of a nun and woman.When renewing her vows, she signed them with: "I, the worst of all" with her own blood (one last "screw you all" to her attackers). She died the next year, having caught the plague while treating her sisters. One of the best poet and philosopher of Mexico.
@@thehellenicneopagan I think part of the Hestia thing was that Hestia is only sometimes listed amongst the Olympians, trading places with Dionysus. Do feel like life of the party Dionysus would be a better Joker though.
Honestly I'm more of a Frederick the Great fan, what with him being so influential in the use of artillery in warfare. He also composed over 50 songs, and of course (We stan a gay king)
One of the most interesting? yes. One of the most Important? not really. She was definitely one of the most important figures in French history, but all of Europe? No.
I really wish this would have covered some of the amazing women of history native to the America's. Or Africa outside of Egypt. They get overlooked on everything and it's such a shame.
Agreed, there's so much more. There are great women who made strides in American history such as Kateri Tekakwitha (renowned for her Catholic virtue of chastity) and Pocahontas, in the face of colonial influences during the early modern period. With regards to Sub-Saharan Africa, we have Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba who fought for independence from the Portuguese and famously had a servant be her seat during a meeting with a governor when she was not offered one. While it's important to recognize that, like all people, these women have flaws, so are all the other famous figures we learn about.
@@yammoto148 I don’t think so. She was up against a man who had grown up on the frontlines of the wars in the Danube and had the most experienced and hardened soldiers in the Empire with him. Tough odds even for a seasoned ruler.
@@blaster2187 Even so, she was offered to keep her empire and her sovereign status if she payed tribute to the empire. Instead she mocked Aurelian and got her butt royally handed to her. She had literally all the cards, not to mention her army wasn't some barbarian rable this was an experienced and well armed army with extensive artillery and knowledge of the terrain they were fighting in. The fact that she couldn't even get a single casualty against the romans is practically insulting to the legacy she inherited from her husband. Worst of all she wasn't even allowed to die on her own terms like Cleopatra and Boudica she was hauled away in chains and humiliated for the rest of her life. I am sorry but when I think Zenobia I do not even think remotely great. Her whole character is a tragedy rather than a success of any kind.
Zenobia is not underrated. She was merely a woman who made history for being terrible in the art of statesmanship and warfare. She’s like Cleopatra but far worse.
@@machirim2805 I respectfully disagree. Aurelian had one of the strongest and most experiences armies of the day, especially after fighting through the Crisis of the Third Century, and there's nothing in her credentials that suggest she was a poor stateswoman or in warfare, she had to go up against Aurelian who steamrolled everyone in his way. Honestly, had she arisen at a different time when you didn't have the Illyrian Roman Emperors controlling the Danube Legions, I can see her starting an Eastern Roman Empire early.
I would love it if OSP made full-length videos for some of these women. I know that a couple have already been featured, but all of these women sound amazing and deserve more time.
I mean, I’ve read a lot of books that briefly mention Zenobia or Eleanor of Aquitaine, but they seem like fascinating people who deserve more scholarship. Not to mention that at least half of these women are people I wish I’d heard of before now.
Not to mention that this video brings up another fascinating subject- the roles women have had in shaping religious ideologies. Two of these women were instrumental in forming major religions as they exist today and I’ve never even heard of them before! Granted, these are religions I don’t know a lot about, I’ve learned a lot about important men with similar roles just from cultural osmosis.
One of my favorite women in history is Hypatia, a natural philosopher and “first” female mathematician who lived in Alexandria during the Christianization of the Roman Empire (late 300s). She was part of the people who desperately, and sadly ulitimately unsuccessfully, tried to keep the last remnant of the library of Alexandria alive. She died at the hands of a Christian sect because they saw her as a witch
This is a very popular and well-liked story that I'm sorry to inform you that the narrative about her is wrong in basically every aspect beyond "Hypatia was a talented mathematician who lived in Alexandria". - The "last remnant of the library of Alexandria" was the Serapheum, a temple of the Graeco-Egyptian god Serapis. It was previously used as an annex for books, but by 391 AD, when it was destroyed on the orders of Emperor Theodosius as recompense for a massacre of Christians by pagan sectarians, there is no evidence for and strong evidence against it being used for any kind of scholastic work. (The actual Great Library, of course, was initially damaged by Julius Caesar during his siege of Alexandria and almost certainly destroyed during the many, MANY battles in Alexandria during the Crisis of the Third Century- no mob of rabid Christians who hated learning were involved.) Hypathia couldn't have been "one of the people who desperately tried to keep the last remnant of the Library of Alexandria alive" because that last remnant (the Mouseion of Alexandria) ceased being funded and collapsed a century before her birth. - Hypatia was assassinated due to a political intrigue between Orestes, the Prefect of Alexandria, and Cyril, the Bishop, over who would control the city- as an advisor of Orestes and a respected philosopher, she was a perfect target for the mob violence that was so common in Alexandria during the era. "She was a witch" wasn't even an excuse used at the time- the justification circulated by the mob was a conspiracy that Hypatia was slighting Cyril and preventing reconciliation between the two factions. The first accusations of witchcraft postdate her death by almost 3 centuries. - It should be noted that both Orestes and Cyril (and in fact probably 80% of all the people involved in any role) were Christians, and Hypatia herself wasn't a "pagan" in any traditional sense: she was a Neoplatonist and a noted ascetic. An apocryphal story goes that when one of her colleagues confessed his affection for her and desire for her hand in marriage, she supposedly presented him with a rag stained with her menses and said "This is what you are in love with. You do not love beauty for its own sake." Hypatia the Martyr for Science is a very powerful and moving story, but it's also a hagiography in the purest sense: almost entirely made from whole cloth and bearing scarce resemblance to the life of the person it's actually based on. Which is a shame, because the actual story of Hypatia, in my opinion, is far more interesting: a woman who managed to rise to high station within the deeply sexist society of the Roman Empire only to be cut down during a period of deep political and civic tension.
Hildegard von Bingen finally getting some respect! 😤 She's absolutely incredible, and I wish more Catholic saints could get recognized in this card deck. St. Scolastica and St. Clare of Assisi are obvious ones, starting womens' religious orders, but also St. Elizabeth of Hungary (who was a queen), St. Joan of Arc (WHO FOUGHT FOR FRANCE AND WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE WITH ONLY HER HEART REMAINING INTACT), And All the Other Martyrs of the Church, Felicity and Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia. Plus, MARY THE MOTHER OF GOD, QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, VIRGIN AND MOTHER.
Sorry if this comment turns into a firestorm. But I need to call something out. The artwork from Women Card(s) depicts Hapshetsut with a Nubian or "Sub-Saharan" phenotype, which is incorrect and potentially dangerous. Studies on the mummy determined she was of Egyptian/Near Eastern ancestry and appearance, not Nubian. There is already a dangerous trend of misinformation and appropriation/erasure of Egyptian history by Afrocentrists. And I feel it is irresponsible to contribute to this trend, even by accident. Anyways, just one flaw in an otherwise great video. The women of history absolutely need more visibility, and I hope to see more videos like this in the future. Peace. If you do reply please be civil.
Yeah, I have noticed that too. It's because people have this very narrow view of Africa. They forget that it is a very diverse continent. And a rather huge continent separated by some harsh environments. Those from the Congo are going to be very different from those North of the Sahara. Who will be very different from those at the very tip near Antartica. There was a Nubian dynasty, but I think that was only a single century. Until the Assyrians showed up. I need some books on the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires.
@@egekazkayas8968 they claim that north Africa and the middle east were black but erouepn occuaption from greeks to romans changed the population and made it white or light brown. thus the achievements of those civilizations were black but europeans white washed them.
This video was posted this morning on my birthday, what a great gift! Y’all’s channel has really gotten me through quarantine and helped respark my love of mythology and history. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this channel and all of the hard work you put into it!
Wish these were a little longer but I really do enjoy when there’s parts of history like this that I genuinely am in the dark on. Thank you for getting this info to the masses
Would have loved to see more Indigenous/South American women, loving the women here... ❤ Edit: I should have written that out better. I had meant specifically more indigenous women of North and South America, because those are some of the women I'd love to hear more about especially, but I also do mean more women of indigenous peoples around the world because I don't know enough of them.
@@kaloyanmanchev6613 wasn't there like that wise woman in the iriquois confederacy? But yeah, honestly I am also pulling a blank here. There probably were tons but mostly thanks to a certain bunch of barbaric spaniards we have lost most written and knotted records of the civilisations who had those and later events resulted in a loss of many of the oral records as well so we sadly don't really know much.
@@kaloyanmanchev6613 Jigonsaseh, she was one of the founders of the haudenosaunee confederacy, which is one of (if not the) oldest living democracies in the world.
Who hopes that Red talks about the Anarchist Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Sheltered Character Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Sassy Character Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Crime Lord Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Guilt Of Killing Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Survivor Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), or the Emotional Fight Scene (so she has to watch Arcane)
The anarchist villain trope video needs a disclaimer that Hollywood anarchists != political anarchists. Examples like the Dark Knight's Joker, or Zaheer from season 3 of Legend of Korra, are definitely Hollywood anarchists - they are anti-authoritarian agents of chaos - but at no point can they be lumped together with the likes of real-world anarchists like Kropotkin, essentially communists who want to abolish the state without first building a workers' state.
“I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.” ― Susan B. Anthony
You guys. Blue already said this is going over the women featured on the deck of cards. Of course there are other women. Please stop complaining. This is essentially a companion piece to the deck’s kickstarter
It’s wonderful that we have a month to talk about these women, but it makes me sad that we frequently don’t talk about Women’s History the rest of the year(or black people outside of Black History Month for that matter).
Let's be frank, people don't talk about history at all very often except some excerpts they might have read from their textbooks when they were younger. And we should talk about it all the time. Maybe people would learn from the mistakes of the past.
The months were made so they'd continue the othering of these groups so they didn't have to incorporate blacks, women, or hardly anyone else into the white male Victorian crafted narrative and we'll continue to see it's exclusion for the majority of history taught in schools, hell we can't even get inclusion for actual historical things like the civil war every official civil war book put out by the history channel refuses to include women who fought in combat I've got 8 women fighting in Gettysburg alone and only 2 died during it and there is always room for more one woman in there fought well over 10 other battles before coming to Gettysburg.
Where’s Catherine the great. I mean she’s the only female I can think of known as the great. Expanded the Russian empire by 520,000km was winning wars, opened traid with Japan and China and started the golden age of Russia. I would Genuinely is say she did more in her life then all the women on this list put together.
It's because everyone already knows who Catherine the Great is, most of the women in this video are usually known by a few members of their own community.
3:55 Another thing that counted against Sappho was the dialect she spoke/wrote in. When people learned Greek after her death, they learned the dialect that let them read things like the Illiad/Odyssy, which was different to what Sappho wrote in. And given how poetry often doesn't translate too well, it meant fewer and fewer people were able to read what she had written, becoming one cause of the lack of popularity until more modern times.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm doing extemporaneous speeches at a tournament next weekend and with how short these descriptions are they're perfect for using in a speech. Great content. I love what you all crank out. Keep this good shit up.
I came home today to a tiny little box on my front doorstep - my shiny, brand new History Makers card deck! The cards are beautiful, the art is awesome, and even the box for the cards themselves is really nice! I bought two decks specially to be able to give it as a gift, and I am thrilled with the quality.
"Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where are you going? Dressed in men's clothing, a sword by your side Your face pale as death, and your eyes full of fury Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where do you ride? Last night in the darkness black reavers attacked us Our Hall lays in ruins below They've stolen our treasure and the bride of my brother And to her aid now I must go, To her side now I must go Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where is your father? And where is your brother? This task should be theirs It is not seemly for maids to be warriors Go back to your valley, and to woman's cares My father lies dead at the hands of their leader My brother lies raving in pain The raiders left no man unwounded to free her But in their hands she'll not remain, I vow she'll not with them remain Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where are your senses? What can you hope to accomplish alone You have no knowledge of war or of weapons Why loose your life, for a girl you scarce known This is far more than a matter of honor And more than a matter of pride She's but a child, all alone and unaided And someone at least should've tried, So now to her rescue I ride Grandmother, grandmother I need a weapon I'm one against many, and I am afraid The reavers have bought them a dark wizard's power I cannot help Dierna without magic aid Kerowyn, grand-daughter, into your keeping I'll give you this sword I once wore Need is her name now ride fearless to battle She'll aid as she did me before, her magic is strong as before Grandmother, grandmother, why turn so willing Why did you try to persuade me to stay Whence came this weapon of steel and of magic And why do you choose now to give it away Kerowyn, not for the weak or the fearful Is the path of a warrior maid You've passed all my tests, now ride out with my blessings And trust in the spell of the blade, ride now and go unafraid" Kerowyn´s Ride - Mercedes Lackey
>Boudica >Symbol of revolutionary spirit Ah yes, the great revolutionary whose crowning achievement was lead an army of hundreds of thousands to sack and butcher defenseless small towns and ambush tiny milita before getting curb stomped in their first real battle (against an army composed of mostly conscripts and formerly retired legionnaires gathered at the last moment that they outnumbered more than 10 to 1)
Boudica's husband had only been allowed to remain king because he had agreed with the Romans when they invaded that he would be the last of his line and not cause any trouble. His will was in direct contradiction to that agreement to collaborate with the new regime. Also, when you want to throw an ultimatum at the Roman Emperor, first check whether it is Nero. Boudica could have retired a rich and influential Roman citizen. She preferred to make demands that any politically savvy British chief would know would bring retribution. Then she tortured and killed many ordinary people who were doing the same that she had as a Roman citizen for two decades but they had vastly less money. Boudica was a very successful war criminal, she slaughtered many, many more civilians than soldiers. She became a symbolic hero of noble British resistance to the British Empire when the Victorians got sentimental about British history. Caractacus was a better example of a king and rebel warrior, who gave us the nucleus of the myth of King Arthur.
I know it's too much to expect given Blue didn't have creative control over the roster of women in this video, but when I hear "martyred female revolutionary leader" I immediately think of Rosa Luxemburg. She was a Polish-German contemporary of Lenin and supported the Bolsheviks during WW1, going so far as to support her own country's attempted workers' revolution in 1919, whose success could have meant the spread of Bolshevism into central and western Europe, and would have completely smothered German fascism before it could even germinate. The same German social democrats who backstabbed the German working class by supporting the war in 1914, and who held power in the new Weimar government by 1919, doubled down on their treachery by ordering the Freikorps paramilitary (a.k.a. future Nazis) to kill Rosa and her comrade Karl Liebknecht in the process of suffocating the attempted revolution.
Honestly, The fact that I can name a lot of other amazing women through out history, that isn’t included here, is amazing. Women and men might not have been on equal footing, but that did not stop any of these, and manny other, women from being amazing badass queens.
Other women who left their mark in history: Lady Ada Lovelace - The worlds first programmer (Babbages Difference engine), or Marie Curie - the only person to win 2 nobel prizes (Physics + Chemistry).
(shhhh several people won two Nobel prizes, but she was the first one to win two, is the only woman with 2 Nobel prizes to this day and one of only two people to get two Nobel prizes in different fields)
Sappho of Lesbos I always found interesting tbh. I took a creative writing class in college last year where I wrote a short story about a reincarnation of Sappho crushing on a reincarnation of French opera singer and duelist Julie d’Aubigny… My professor loved it 🤣
3:30 After watching 'One Topic At A Time' vids. I am quite aware of Sapho. If you haven't heard of it, there's a Redit called 'Sapho and her friends' which is devoted to looking at gay erasure. Why is the subredit about Gay erasure you ask? Well historians were prudes and decided that all of Sapho's poems were just about 'her good friends' and not that she was a full on lesbian. The word lesbian has its roots in the island that Sapho lived on, the island of Lesbos.
Im so happy that you included Queen Lili’uokalani!!!! Thank you so much! She was such an amazing woman and its so nice to see when people talk about her and her legacy.
uhh, no men in their right sense of mind would deny women in history. Do you have citations and references to your claims? Because that notion sounds absurd.
Misogyny in academia and in historiography is pretty severe, though we are getting better these days. I could go into detail if you wish, but there’s a lot.
@@lindenshepherd6085 Please enlighten me. I rather have something to cite at least when I encounter similar discussions again in real life. Because gender shouldn't be a key factor in general science and history.
Hey OSP! Chinese guy here. In the cards there is a character called "Ching Shih", and I actually had to look it up since I had no idea who that was. Apparently it was Zheng Yi Sao (郑一嫂, lit. "Zheng Yi's wife"), and "Ching Shih" (郑氏, lit. "of the Zheng family", as wives used to take the surname of the husbands) was in Cantonese, a language I don't speak. I am sure you know that she was a famous Qing-dynasty pirate and girlboss by trade. Well, overly awkward comment over, I guess. Keep up the good work!
I'm in love with the fact that a HUGE number of the comments down here are just people saying "well don't forget about X, she was ALSO really important and cool!" Personally, I nominate Mary Shelly: founding mother of science fiction, and more goth than you'll EVER be. Seriously-- she snuck out to meet her lover (and also... "meet her lover") on her mother's grave. Vampire queen shit.
"they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.” ― Anna Comnena,
Add another girlboss to your list: King Tamar of Georgia/Saqartvelo, her era was called the golden ages, because of how she was such a great ruler and just made everything so much better. She was also the only women royalty in Georgia's/Saqartvelo's who got the title of king instead of queen.
Olga of Kiev is iconic and every time people forget about her I cry because she was SO important to the way history of Eastern Europe developed and she was actually one of the first buddies with Byzantines later this will develop into impact on a lot of culture AND the way she strategised to keep Rus independent is just mwah
I would like to add Milunka Savić to the list.The most decorated female soldier in history.She served from 1912-1918 in the balkan wars as well as the first world war.
I hope this deck does well because there for sure are many more amazing women that could/should be highlighted for a second deck or even enough to have a full deck of 13 different women for each suit.
Could even set up themes for the different suits like: spades for warriors/generals, hearts for the saints/poets, diamonds for science/tech/medical, and clubs for achievements (I'm thinking like Amelia Earhart) just spit balling ideas. Anyone can feel free to use these ideas.
It's incredibly impressive a pirate managed to retire in an age where the end of a pirate tended to be violent and or humiliating (especially as a woman). Also, if I recall, Ching didn't just straight up surrender per say. She recognized she couldn't do this forever, and negotiated a retirement plan to remarry a government official for political protection in exchange for an "apology & loyalty" to the emperor. To which I think she was laughing the whole time inside while pledging. She was also incredibly structured in her reign. There were lots of rules for her pirate crews that gave protection not only to each other but also to women in particular (I believe rape ended in beheading for the offender).
I'm not sure about THAT SPECIFIC penalty, but when "be brought to death" comes to mind, I thought they'd be straight up brought to the sword or fed to the sharks
There are three queens I wish had been at least mentioned or got their own spots on the list: King Kristina of Sweden, Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden, and Queen Louise of Prussia. The first two left a big cultural impact on Sweden, while Louise of Prussia was an incredible diplomat and was even praised by Napoleon. She was also known for her generosity towards her people and she was incredibly beloved
kristina did little but to ruin sweden as a nation, sure culturally she did STUFF but they costed a lot, I can't argue too much about Louise of Prussia, whilst Lovisa Ulrika I guess could be a candidate but she did very little in comparison to others
I really appreciate that you picked a variety of influential women from warriors, a pirate, politians, religious leaders, etc. Showing that in all positions you are important.
Please do a part 2 of this. There are so many great women out there who have done Great deeds and accomplishments that need to have their stories told. I would love to see your take on many of them including Good Queen "Bess" AKA Queen Elizabeth the First. Good Queen Bess brought about the Golden Age of of prosperity to England and she was a patreon for William Shakespeare and Francis Drake. If you were to look up the definition of a queen, then you would see a picture of Queen Elizabeth as the ideal example of a Queen. Anyway, this was an enjoyable video to watch. Thank you so much, Blue.
Fun fact: Japan Heian period noble men handle the state while noble women handle litterature(& culture in general). This is why some male poet back then was pretending to be women, because a man can't possibly write something worth reading
Aelia Pulcheria is one of my favorite women in history, at the age of 15 or so she became regent of the Byzantine Empire for her younger brother and managed to wield significant power in the patriarchal country despite her age and gender. She ruled for years before her brother Theodosius II became emperor at which point she advised him in the affairs of state and probably continued to wield a lot of control of the empire even as an unmarried imperial princess. She only ended up marrying the Marcian, after her brother's death in 450. I can only imagine the strength of will and intelligence it must have taken to navigate imperial politics as a young woman in the eastern Roman empire and manage to not be forced into marriage.
Omg so excited for those cards, itll go great with a set I got from the Boeing museum of flight which was same concept but women in STEM fields!! Tysm for this!!!!
Kazakhstan recently made a movie called the Legend of Tomiris - about the real Massagetae queen who opposed Cyrus the Great. It's free on TH-cam to watch and I don't think it has gotten enough attention.
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Sikh empire please
Where are Caterina Sforza and lucrezia tornabuoni in this video?
Haven't watched. Hopefully that tyrant queen who tortured dozens is in this
@@alexnitronamtip5036 In hell
@@kaloyanmanchev6613 why they are amazing!
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
I freaking love Eleanor of Aquitaine, I’m so happy they covered her
@@BirdPeopleArentReal WHAT!!!!!
What a legend
and participating in a crusade! that women lived life on her terms
@@potatomasterstudios761 what
"I'm retiring. You're welcome" Has to be the biggest flex of any criminal in history.
Yeah she totally exposed the gaping holes in the Qing's naval defenses. If they had taken that opportunity to correct their mistakes (maybe even hire her to teach their navy), maybe the British would've had a harder time
She was the rose, the bloody rose, the bloody rose of china
@@dragonfell5078 they wouldn't have that hard a time, the brits had one of the best land armies which could easily defeat the qing even without naval support
@@Cecilia-ky3uw they did but the british didnt have logistics on their side. it was only because of the sheer ineptitude and technological gap wider than the grand canyon (brought on entirely by chinese hubris) that let the british go ham.
contrast the Zulus or hell the native americans, who gave the british a hard time even with an even larger tech gap just because they werent led by incompetents.
contrast japan, which took one look at the absolute reaming the brits gave to china, looked at the bunch of american ships in tokyo bay, and instantly said "we are going to modernize the SHIT out of our society" and rose to become one of the only true modern era asian colonial powers.
and since china REALLY sucks at learning from their own history, they AGAIN got pantsed by a foreign power (this time japan).
literally the only thing that was keeping the us and russia from carving china up like a christmas ham after WW2 was that the country was SO fucked up no one had the stamina to deal with it.
it's even why MacArthur ended up getting fired when he thought to try to invade China.
china has beautiful art and culture, a robust history, and some of the shittiest government policies in human history.
@@kyuven The only true mistake is the one where nothing is learned.
So China boutta get slapped by their asian parents because THEY A FAILYAH
jokes aside, china is beautiful, but their government would be outclassed by fucking Mordor and it's depressing. China is whole again... THEN IT BROKE AGAIN
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.
Unfortunately she was against Augustus, had she been against a lesser roman ruler and not the best one she might have survived for longer
Despite the problems I do have with her that is a fair point, if you're going to lose to anybody you will lose to Augustus. He even ran Egypt better than her and turned it into one of the most profitable provinces in the Empire
@@atticusp6592 Extracting more income out of a province doesn't necessarily mean running it better. Cleopatra clearly was more present and more personally active in Egypt, periodically travelling up the Nile to strengthen local support, whereas Augustus and his governors were mostly just present in and around Alexandria, maybe as far south as where Cairo lies today. And in terms of finances, it is totally possible that Cleopatra's plan was to extract less wealth out of her realm now in order to allow more growth in the region, as a sort of investment into the future.
Also for turning the fall of a dynasty into a rebirth
@@franzluggin398 You mean by how Augustus improved it's infrastructure and promoted trade? That and it didn't hurt that it's rulers didn't need to rely on foreign support to have any semblance of stability. Whatever Cleopatra had planned doesn't really matter in the face of what Augustus actually did. To her credit she was arguably among the most competent members of her dynasty and the situation she inherited was not especially desirable but I cannot help but think that she could have made better use of her time, instead of drinking pearls in wine she could have improved the running of her Kingdom.
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.
Are there heads on the statues?
Oh yeah saw a video about them somewhere on YT in the past
The whole lot was actually really awesome not just the sisters once they took power their main female general was years a head of them she fled to the mountains and already had a sizable army training to take on China itself by the time the one sister became queen and both of them decided to get back at China. Their General was hardcore but what is also unique is that they had 37 female generals for the entire affair it's the most recorded female generalship ever recorded.
When China finally bared down on them after a prolonged years of battles the hardcore female general gave birth during this final battle she'd not stopped fighting her whole pregnancy and decided why give up now? She strapped the baby to her chest and went into the fray
no one knows if the sisters died, committed suicide, drowned in a river crossing, ran off as they were not amongst the dead recorded but the whole affair should be many movies like we keep getting spammed on D-day IMO so many many women to follow perspective wise you'd be able to really keep remakes fresh.
but I guess that's the point Hollywood doesn't want to follow women in battle perspectives often they think like they thought in the civil war if women are seen doing combat and talked about positively or shown doing their brave deeds women will get it in their heads to fight too that's an actually thing they said during the civil war hence the shamming of any ousted women in battle.
@@octapusxft Epimetheus did a great video on the Trung Sisters rebellion, might be the one you're thinking of.
The elder sister's husband was also captured and use by the army of Chinese at that time which was the Han Dynasty's to force a surrender from her. She did not faze.
A weird, odd and somewhat apocryphal detail is that they lose to Chinese male soldiers who fought naked or sth. Weird point but kinda iconic.
Red really outdid herself with the character drawings this time. Seriously love Tomoe's chill expression.
I love Boudica's look of absolute rage
Man, the Witch-Hunt-Persectution of innocent Russian People is f-ing Disgusting.
America at it’s Worst.
Seen Some More News newest video? The One about Ukraine?
It covers people being so f-ing stupid they pee on maybe-but-not-actually-russian People’s doormats cause being petty is not cringey-as-f-ck, apparently, but actually ‚cool’.
Even if the guy who didnt deserve it cause being Russian isnt evil ISNT EVEN RUSSIAN ANYWAY.
If you have 0 Endurance, then watch just the part of the video covering the thing I just ranted-about: Minute 34-38.
Another notable female historical figure is Gráinne Mhaol, pirate queen of Ireland! She's got quite the story :)
I was hoping for her too, as she is family
Knew I forgot someone
Daughter of the Dun, terror of the west~
@@ThingsStuffington sailed the coast of Ireland, with O'Malley on her crest!
I was waiting for Margrete 1 from denmark
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.
i wasthinking of queen nanny too
I am the most famous man on YouTub! This is not bragging! This is the truth! The truth will set you free, dear mike
While I’m sure this is just fantastical hearsay, but according to legend Grandy Nanny could catch bullets and canon fire, so the British army crafted a silver canon ball just for her and fired.
She catches the thing in her teeth, and decides to keep it as a souvenir.
hi, Jamaican here, that would be Nanny of the Maroons! and she's not a legend, she was a very real person, and recognized as a National Heroine of Jamaica. she was a war general, and excelled at guerilla warfare, giving the British the run around for years upon years. The area she claimed is called Accompong, and is one of 4 Maroon Towns on the island.
@@Jamie-A My mistake, I’m sorry. I did not mean to imply that Grandy Nanny was a myth. I meant to say that her ability to catch cannonballs and bullets might have been slightly exaggerated.
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.
From what I saw it was more people sharing rather than overt anger or anything. I added Isabella I of Castile and Margaret Beaufort.
ok well I'm gonna drop one of the more obvious choices and say Queen Elisabeth the 1st of England
Actually, Blue said in the podcast that he did pick which women appeared in the deck. Though, he also said he didn't pick any women that already appeared in the 3 previous decks The Women Cards have made.
Plus, decks have limits.
@@als3022 Isabella I of Castile ?
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!
Well, all abilities would have been viewed as ultimately divine favor as all flowed from God.
But she was very much an integrated part of the medieval systems of power as abbess, and as such not easily ignored or dismissed.
And her mountains of correspondence show us that she was respected by very powerful men, even if she routinely sassed them. I guess being challenged in a letter doesn't carry the same threat as public chastisement.
And hard words from a famously pious polymath likely go down better than some upstart monk who suddenly shakes the foundations of Catholicism.
Seriously, both my girl Hildegard von Bingen and the utter QUEEN that was Eleanor of Aquitaine in one video?! Today is an excellent day.
If you like Eleanor, I recommend the film The Lion in Winter (assuming you haven't seen it already), where she is stunningly played by Katharine Hepburn; a role for which she deservingly won an Academy Award.
I was thinking the same thing ❤️
@@MatConlon Mentioning "The Lion in Winter"???
You are now, officially, my best friend!
That film is ENDLESSLY quotable!!!!
Man, the Witch-Hunt-Persectution of innocent Russian People is f-ing Disgusting.
America at it’s Worst.
Seen Some More News newest video? The One about Ukraine?
It covers people being so f-ing stupid they pee on maybe-but-not-actually-russian People’s doormats cause being petty is not cringey-as-f-ck, apparently, but actually ‚cool’.
Even if the guy who didnt deserve it cause being Russian isnt evil ISNT EVEN RUSSIAN ANYWAY.
And I'm ashamed I don't know much about her, beyond the very excellent Bardcore musician, who takes her name from her
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.
*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..."
I'm of two minds on that;, it'd have been cool if they all were women, but to the degree they've been sexualized in the game is kind of offputting. Just saying.
They aren’t all that bad. Tomoe for example leans more towards the moe in her name by being depicted as a cute gamer girl in her off time.
@@IliyaMoroumetz Insert rant about how they ruined Nero, which was wonderfully written in Fate//Extra, here
Literally thinking the same thing.
All these amazing women in history and fate just jump straight to turning half of the men into women, or "trap", or some kind of literal nonsense of sex/gender that for some reasons looks like women
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.
The girl is supposed to be Scottish right?
@@snowyowl235 Ostensibly.
Boudica's husband had only been allowed to remain king because he had agreed with the Romans when they invaded that he would be the last of his line and not cause any trouble. His will was in direct contradiction to that agreement to collaborate with the new regime. Also, when you want to throw an ultimatum at the Roman Emperor, first check whether it is Nero. Boudica could have retired a rich and influential Roman citizen. She preferred to make demands that any politically savvy British chief would know would bring retribution. Then she tortured and killed many ordinary people who were doing the same that she had as a Roman citizen for two decades but they had vastly less money. Boudica was a very successful war criminal, she slaughtered many, many more civilians than soldiers. She became a symbolic hero of noble British resistance to the British Empire when the Victorians got sentimental about British history. Caractacus was a better example of a king and rebel warrior, who gave us the nucleus of the myth of King Arthur.
@@pattheplanter I mean, fair enough, but I feel like that comment would work better on its own rather than a reply to how I fell prey to the siren song of a tam o' shanter.
@@FanOfMostEverything There are 919 comments already, I felt my comment would work better by parasitising the popularity of yours. Sorry. The hat love was an innocent victim. The concept of Boudica needing any more vengeance than she already took from innocent bystanders seemed strange to me, when you know the full story.
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
Pardon my ignorance, was that the lady in the story of burning a village down with a bird from each home?
@@ethanmacleod1721 That would be her, yes.
I looked up the story about the birds. Holy. S***. That's terrifying.
Also, if memory serves me right, she was also instrumental in introducing Christianity to the region, hence why she was canonized by the Orthodox Church.
Quite possibly my favorite Saint, maybe ever.
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.
Adding to this impressive list:
Marie-Thérèse Figueur - Female French soldier serving from 1793 to 1815
Running Eagle - Blackfeet tribe war chief
Elizabeth Cochran/Nellie Bly - American investigative journalist
Virginia Hall - WWII spy for the Allied forces
Locusta - Roman assassin known as the Poisoner
Marie Curie - Polish & naturalized-French scientist
Mochizuki Chiyome - Japanese leader of female ninjas
Would like to add Julie d’Aubigny, a master swordswoman and opera singer from France who spent her relatively short life destroying any man who dared challenge her to a sword fight, briefly becoming a nun so she could hook up with and then break out her at-the-time girlfriend, running from the law, and just generally being a total badass.
You forgot Joan of Arc.
Olga of Kiev is absolutely based.
Kyiv* not Kiev, really important distinction to make right now
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.
Well, there are tons of famous women who didn't make the list. Marie Curie, Jeanne D'Arc, Margret Thatcher, Mother Teresa, etc.
Blue had the hard task to pick ten out of the hundreds or thousands there are.
It's all about bullshit representation. Apparently it's better to include a librarian, a scholar and a queen who wasn't a queen than include women who ACTUALLY changed the world.
@@lubue5795 13 not 10, but yes
Or, you know, maybe it's important to showcase some of the other important women throughout history instead of just talking about the ones everyone already knows about
@@lubue5795 Margaret Thatcher and Mother Teresa don't really belong here in my opinion, but I was surprised Jeanne D'Arc didn't make the cut
Should have included Theodora, Wife of Justinian the 1st. Propably my favourite woman of history. Utter badass, competent politician and even married for love
Blue did a video on her if you're interested. I think it might be one of the Valentine's day video
@@AskMia411 oh really? Nice!
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!
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
ALSO the second Catholic saint in the list! Saints don't play
Well, incendiary birds speak for themselves
Kiev should be spelled Kyiv, Kiev originating as the Russian name for the city, whilst Kyiv is the original
@@dragon12234 Kyiv isn't the original, it's just the way it's pronounced in modern Ukrainian language so they want people to use it to assert their independence from Russia. In Old Ukranian it is written as Києвъ
She really deserves a video from Blue, seriously. She's such a fascinating person
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.
I mean there are quite a lot of women who pulled a Mulan to go to army it makes more sense to make an episode solely about them since most of them actually contributed not that much to the actual flow of history and it's their acts that are respectable not amount of contribution
Sabaton just did a song about her, Lady of the dark
@@blackvial I'm well aware, that song was my whole reasoning for bringing her up. Before I heard it last night I had never even heard of her.
RAISE YOUR HAND
FOR THE LADY OF THE DARK
SOLDIER WITH NO WILL TO KILL
WITH A PHILANTROPIC HEART
One of my favorites is Queen Amanirenas. The one eyed Kushite Kandake who fought Rome. Not only did she beat Rome at first, she got them to agree to a peace treaty that mostly favored the Kushitic people.
Knowing Blue’s love of Florence I’m surprised that the “queen who married into the French monarchy” wasn’t Catherine de Medici
Blue didn’t pick the list, he covered the women featured on the kickstarter deck
Lack of Jadwiga of Poland saddens me a bit, but i guess that just shows how many badass, wise and strong some across history there were!
1:15 Love Indian representation, Jhansi ki Ranibai is another best example of Badass Indian women 👌👌
Hoping to hear about Emmy Noether, one of the greatest minds of the 20th century
Who
Never heard of her
Just did a five second Wikipedia search. Emmy Noether made many advancements in abstract algebra, discovered Noether's theorem which is fundamental to mathematical physics, and according to multiple major mathematicians and physicists, Einstein included, was considered the single most important woman in the history of mathematics.
She's one of those people who is so smart that her brilliance will never be appreciated by anyone else without a large ph6socs background.
She deserves an entire episode. Or at least a women of mathematics episode where she’s headlining.
It's a very roundabout way of influencing history but Clotilde, wife of Clovis I played a large part in establishing Catholicism as the majority sect of European Christianity. The Franks that weren't pagan mostly followed Arian Christianity but Clotilde, being from an area just northwest of Italy, followed what was at the time the mainline orthodox Christianity. She raised her children in that form of Christianity and played a major role in convincing her husband to convert. Clovis would go on to conquer large swaths of territory in what is now modern France and Germany, and the Frankish Kingdom this established would, a few centuries later, have its king crowned as Emperor: Charlemagne.
This is an interesting project, I hope we can get a second deck of cards in the future with a similar idea (or a part 2).
The first women who made history that came to my mind was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a writer, philosopher, nun and nurse that lived on New Spain (Mexico) during the colonial era.
She grew up the americas, learning from a young age, thanks to her family's library, she became fluent in Latin and Nahuatl, wrote a lot of good plays and poems. Like Hildegard of Bingen, she became part of the Catholic church, but she was always at odds with them.
"Foolish men who accuse women without reason, without seeing that you are the reason of the very thing you blame."
Her criticism of misogyny and the hypocrisy of men led to her condemnation by the church, she told them that God would not have given women intelect, if he didn't want them to use it. After that, she was forced to only work on charity, nursing the poor, had to sell all of her books, was no longer permitted to write and had to renew her vows.
She did as she was told, getting bad mouthed by everyone around her, calling her a bad example of a nun and woman.When renewing her vows, she signed them with: "I, the worst of all" with her own blood (one last "screw you all" to her attackers).
She died the next year, having caught the plague while treating her sisters. One of the best poet and philosopher of Mexico.
You guys should do a deck with the Olympians. With Hades as the Ace and Hestia as the Joker. I would buy all of the decks
Hades not technically an Olympian... Joker not really part of the 12 card deck, and Hestia by far the worst candidate for the joker card! 🙄
Definitely think Artemis should be Ace
@@thehellenicneopagan
>>The joke>>
You.
@@thehellenicneopagan I think part of the Hestia thing was that Hestia is only sometimes listed amongst the Olympians, trading places with Dionysus. Do feel like life of the party Dionysus would be a better Joker though.
Nah bro, Artemis already has the slot as Ace of the Olympians, archery and sexuality combined
The comments being full of suggestions for other amazing female figures in history just makes me so happy
Jeanne d'Arc remains one of the most important and interesting historical figures in all of European history, change my mind.
St Olga?
@@dongiovanni4331 HE SAID ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
Honestly I'm more of a Frederick the Great fan, what with him being so influential in the use of artillery in warfare. He also composed over 50 songs, and of course (We stan a gay king)
I'd say each country had at least one (or more than a few) "most important and interesting female figure"
One of the most interesting? yes. One of the most Important? not really. She was definitely one of the most important figures in French history, but all of Europe? No.
I really wish this would have covered some of the amazing women of history native to the America's. Or Africa outside of Egypt. They get overlooked on everything and it's such a shame.
Agreed, there's so much more. There are great women who made strides in American history such as Kateri Tekakwitha (renowned for her Catholic virtue of chastity) and Pocahontas, in the face of colonial influences during the early modern period. With regards to Sub-Saharan Africa, we have Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba who fought for independence from the Portuguese and famously had a servant be her seat during a meeting with a governor when she was not offered one. While it's important to recognize that, like all people, these women have flaws, so are all the other famous figures we learn about.
@@Turquerina Came here to say nzinga as well.
Yay! Zenobia was featured! Such an underrated monarch especially when Aurelian was waiting in the wings.
For good reason, she suffered the most embarrassing defeat in military history, it makes all her talks of intelligence seem not as true.
@@yammoto148 I don’t think so. She was up against a man who had grown up on the frontlines of the wars in the Danube and had the most experienced and hardened soldiers in the Empire with him. Tough odds even for a seasoned ruler.
@@blaster2187 Even so, she was offered to keep her empire and her sovereign status if she payed tribute to the empire. Instead she mocked Aurelian and got her butt royally handed to her.
She had literally all the cards, not to mention her army wasn't some barbarian rable this was an experienced and well armed army with extensive artillery and knowledge of the terrain they were fighting in. The fact that she couldn't even get a single casualty against the romans is practically insulting to the legacy she inherited from her husband.
Worst of all she wasn't even allowed to die on her own terms like Cleopatra and Boudica she was hauled away in chains and humiliated for the rest of her life. I am sorry but when I think Zenobia I do not even think remotely great.
Her whole character is a tragedy rather than a success of any kind.
Zenobia is not underrated. She was merely a woman who made history for being terrible in the art of statesmanship and warfare. She’s like Cleopatra but far worse.
@@machirim2805 I respectfully disagree. Aurelian had one of the strongest and most experiences armies of the day, especially after fighting through the Crisis of the Third Century, and there's nothing in her credentials that suggest she was a poor stateswoman or in warfare, she had to go up against Aurelian who steamrolled everyone in his way. Honestly, had she arisen at a different time when you didn't have the Illyrian Roman Emperors controlling the Danube Legions, I can see her starting an Eastern Roman Empire early.
I'm a little disappointed you didnt get to mention Hojo Masako. A woman who earned one of the more unique honorifics in history. The nun shogun.
Huh. That does indeed sound like an interesting story.
I would love it if OSP made full-length videos for some of these women. I know that a couple have already been featured, but all of these women sound amazing and deserve more time.
I mean, I’ve read a lot of books that briefly mention Zenobia or Eleanor of Aquitaine, but they seem like fascinating people who deserve more scholarship. Not to mention that at least half of these women are people I wish I’d heard of before now.
Not to mention that this video brings up another fascinating subject- the roles women have had in shaping religious ideologies. Two of these women were instrumental in forming major religions as they exist today and I’ve never even heard of them before! Granted, these are religions I don’t know a lot about, I’ve learned a lot about important men with similar roles just from cultural osmosis.
Really loving all the comments suggesting more women throughout history who didn’t make the video! Keep ‘em coming! ❤️
I really love this episode, all of these women deserve movies, musicals and museums of their own
Nah
One of my favorite women in history is Hypatia, a natural philosopher and “first” female mathematician who lived in Alexandria during the Christianization of the Roman Empire (late 300s). She was part of the people who desperately, and sadly ulitimately unsuccessfully, tried to keep the last remnant of the library of Alexandria alive. She died at the hands of a Christian sect because they saw her as a witch
This is a very popular and well-liked story that I'm sorry to inform you that the narrative about her is wrong in basically every aspect beyond "Hypatia was a talented mathematician who lived in Alexandria".
- The "last remnant of the library of Alexandria" was the Serapheum, a temple of the Graeco-Egyptian god Serapis. It was previously used as an annex for books, but by 391 AD, when it was destroyed on the orders of Emperor Theodosius as recompense for a massacre of Christians by pagan sectarians, there is no evidence for and strong evidence against it being used for any kind of scholastic work. (The actual Great Library, of course, was initially damaged by Julius Caesar during his siege of Alexandria and almost certainly destroyed during the many, MANY battles in Alexandria during the Crisis of the Third Century- no mob of rabid Christians who hated learning were involved.) Hypathia couldn't have been "one of the people who desperately tried to keep the last remnant of the Library of Alexandria alive" because that last remnant (the Mouseion of Alexandria) ceased being funded and collapsed a century before her birth.
- Hypatia was assassinated due to a political intrigue between Orestes, the Prefect of Alexandria, and Cyril, the Bishop, over who would control the city- as an advisor of Orestes and a respected philosopher, she was a perfect target for the mob violence that was so common in Alexandria during the era. "She was a witch" wasn't even an excuse used at the time- the justification circulated by the mob was a conspiracy that Hypatia was slighting Cyril and preventing reconciliation between the two factions. The first accusations of witchcraft postdate her death by almost 3 centuries.
- It should be noted that both Orestes and Cyril (and in fact probably 80% of all the people involved in any role) were Christians, and Hypatia herself wasn't a "pagan" in any traditional sense: she was a Neoplatonist and a noted ascetic. An apocryphal story goes that when one of her colleagues confessed his affection for her and desire for her hand in marriage, she supposedly presented him with a rag stained with her menses and said "This is what you are in love with. You do not love beauty for its own sake."
Hypatia the Martyr for Science is a very powerful and moving story, but it's also a hagiography in the purest sense: almost entirely made from whole cloth and bearing scarce resemblance to the life of the person it's actually based on. Which is a shame, because the actual story of Hypatia, in my opinion, is far more interesting: a woman who managed to rise to high station within the deeply sexist society of the Roman Empire only to be cut down during a period of deep political and civic tension.
my god hypatia is one very powerful great scientist(civ 6)
Hildegard von Bingen finally getting some respect! 😤 She's absolutely incredible, and I wish more Catholic saints could get recognized in this card deck. St. Scolastica and St. Clare of Assisi are obvious ones, starting womens' religious orders, but also St. Elizabeth of Hungary (who was a queen), St. Joan of Arc (WHO FOUGHT FOR FRANCE AND WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE WITH ONLY HER HEART REMAINING INTACT), And All the Other Martyrs of the Church, Felicity and Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia.
Plus, MARY THE MOTHER OF GOD, QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, VIRGIN AND MOTHER.
I 100% agree especially with the Blessed Virgin Mary!
Sorry if this comment turns into a firestorm. But I need to call something out.
The artwork from Women Card(s) depicts Hapshetsut with a Nubian or "Sub-Saharan" phenotype, which is incorrect and potentially dangerous. Studies on the mummy determined she was of Egyptian/Near Eastern ancestry and appearance, not Nubian. There is already a dangerous trend of misinformation and appropriation/erasure of Egyptian history by Afrocentrists. And I feel it is irresponsible to contribute to this trend, even by accident.
Anyways, just one flaw in an otherwise great video. The women of history absolutely need more visibility, and I hope to see more videos like this in the future.
Peace. If you do reply please be civil.
Yeah, I have noticed that too. It's because people have this very narrow view of Africa. They forget that it is a very diverse continent. And a rather huge continent separated by some harsh environments. Those from the Congo are going to be very different from those North of the Sahara. Who will be very different from those at the very tip near Antartica.
There was a Nubian dynasty, but I think that was only a single century. Until the Assyrians showed up. I need some books on the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires.
Can you explain to me what exactly Afrocentrism is ?
@@egekazkayas8968 they claim that north Africa and the middle east were black but erouepn occuaption from greeks to romans changed the population and made it white or light brown. thus the achievements of those civilizations were black but europeans white washed them.
This video was posted this morning on my birthday, what a great gift! Y’all’s channel has really gotten me through quarantine and helped respark my love of mythology and history. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this channel and all of the hard work you put into it!
I’m glad that buying the cards also supports the Malala Fund and girls being able to get the education they deserve.
Wish these were a little longer but I really do enjoy when there’s parts of history like this that I genuinely am in the dark on. Thank you for getting this info to the masses
why isnt my mom in this list 😢
Would have loved to see more Indigenous/South American women, loving the women here... ❤
Edit: I should have written that out better. I had meant specifically more indigenous women of North and South America, because those are some of the women I'd love to hear more about especially, but I also do mean more women of indigenous peoples around the world because I don't know enough of them.
Like who ?
@@kaloyanmanchev6613 wasn't there like that wise woman in the iriquois confederacy? But yeah, honestly I am also pulling a blank here.
There probably were tons but mostly thanks to a certain bunch of barbaric spaniards we have lost most written and knotted records of the civilisations who had those and later events resulted in a loss of many of the oral records as well so we sadly don't really know much.
@@kaloyanmanchev6613 Jigonsaseh, she was one of the founders of the haudenosaunee confederacy, which is one of (if not the) oldest living democracies in the world.
@@sizanogreen9900 Yea I think this a little bit too regional.
@@100bruinsrule San Marino is a lot older
Can we talk about Milunka Savić the most-decorated female soldier in the history of warfare
Hmm maybe a semi-popular metal band should write a song about it in their second album on the Great War... Ahh if only
@@xingyuzhao8666 you mean Lady of the Dark?
Who hopes that Red talks about the Anarchist Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Sheltered Character Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Sassy Character Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Crime Lord Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Guilt Of Killing Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), the Survivor Trope (so she has to watch Arcane), or the Emotional Fight Scene (so she has to watch Arcane)
You realize that all things thinks are very used and popular soArcane is not a recruitment
I hope she talks about The Multiverse Trope, so she can talk about my favorite theoretical topic.
@@luigiboi4244 what's your favorite example of it in media? mine's spiderman: into the spiderverse, but I haven't seen many others that use it
The anarchist villain trope video needs a disclaimer that Hollywood anarchists != political anarchists. Examples like the Dark Knight's Joker, or Zaheer from season 3 of Legend of Korra, are definitely Hollywood anarchists - they are anti-authoritarian agents of chaos - but at no point can they be lumped together with the likes of real-world anarchists like Kropotkin, essentially communists who want to abolish the state without first building a workers' state.
Blue's rapid fire complex pronunciations have me intimidated and impressed.
“I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.”
― Susan B. Anthony
She was a Quaker, after all.
You guys. Blue already said this is going over the women featured on the deck of cards. Of course there are other women. Please stop complaining. This is essentially a companion piece to the deck’s kickstarter
Props to Red who drew the ladies in question ^^
I like the art style a lot
If you're talking about the art on the cards, they were all drawn by Zebby Wahls, co-creator of The Woman Cards.
Honorable mention which, now that I think about it, is pretty relevant to today's situation: Saint Olga of Kiev!!
It’s wonderful that we have a month to talk about these women, but it makes me sad that we frequently don’t talk about Women’s History the rest of the year(or black people outside of Black History Month for that matter).
Let's be frank, people don't talk about history at all very often except some excerpts they might have read from their textbooks when they were younger. And we should talk about it all the time. Maybe people would learn from the mistakes of the past.
The months were made so they'd continue the othering of these groups so they didn't have to incorporate blacks, women, or hardly anyone else into the white male Victorian crafted narrative and we'll continue to see it's exclusion for the majority of history taught in schools, hell we can't even get inclusion for actual historical things like the civil war every official civil war book put out by the history channel refuses to include women who fought in combat I've got 8 women fighting in Gettysburg alone and only 2 died during it and there is always room for more one woman in there fought well over 10 other battles before coming to Gettysburg.
Women should be thankful we even mention them..... or are you forgetting that they mean nothing????
Where’s Catherine the great. I mean she’s the only female I can think of known as the great. Expanded the Russian empire by 520,000km was winning wars, opened traid with Japan and China and started the golden age of Russia. I would Genuinely is say she did more in her life then all the women on this list put together.
It's because everyone already knows who Catherine the Great is, most of the women in this video are usually known by a few members of their own community.
3:55 Another thing that counted against Sappho was the dialect she spoke/wrote in. When people learned Greek after her death, they learned the dialect that let them read things like the Illiad/Odyssy, which was different to what Sappho wrote in. And given how poetry often doesn't translate too well, it meant fewer and fewer people were able to read what she had written, becoming one cause of the lack of popularity until more modern times.
Blue goes into detail about this very thing in his video on Sappho.
This video taught me that the true enemy of women, is the Roman Empire.
Could you maybe do an episode on each of the women present? This would be a good series for Women's month and also promote the cards.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm doing extemporaneous speeches at a tournament next weekend and with how short these descriptions are they're perfect for using in a speech. Great content. I love what you all crank out. Keep this good shit up.
I came home today to a tiny little box on my front doorstep - my shiny, brand new History Makers card deck! The cards are beautiful, the art is awesome, and even the box for the cards themselves is really nice! I bought two decks specially to be able to give it as a gift, and I am thrilled with the quality.
"Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where are you going?
Dressed in men's clothing, a sword by your side
Your face pale as death, and your eyes full of fury
Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where do you ride?
Last night in the darkness black reavers attacked us
Our Hall lays in ruins below
They've stolen our treasure and the bride of my brother
And to her aid now I must go,
To her side now I must go
Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where is your father?
And where is your brother? This task should be theirs
It is not seemly for maids to be warriors
Go back to your valley, and to woman's cares
My father lies dead at the hands of their leader
My brother lies raving in pain
The raiders left no man unwounded to free her
But in their hands she'll not remain,
I vow she'll not with them remain
Kerowyn, Kerowyn, where are your senses?
What can you hope to accomplish alone
You have no knowledge of war or of weapons
Why loose your life, for a girl you scarce known
This is far more than a matter of honor
And more than a matter of pride
She's but a child, all alone and unaided
And someone at least should've tried,
So now to her rescue I ride
Grandmother, grandmother I need a weapon
I'm one against many, and I am afraid
The reavers have bought them a dark wizard's power
I cannot help Dierna without magic aid
Kerowyn, grand-daughter, into your keeping
I'll give you this sword I once wore
Need is her name now ride fearless to battle
She'll aid as she did me before, her magic is strong as before
Grandmother, grandmother, why turn so willing
Why did you try to persuade me to stay
Whence came this weapon of steel and of magic
And why do you choose now to give it away
Kerowyn, not for the weak or the fearful
Is the path of a warrior maid
You've passed all my tests, now ride out with my blessings
And trust in the spell of the blade, ride now and go unafraid"
Kerowyn´s Ride - Mercedes Lackey
I wish you added Theodora she beautiful smart and help kept the eastern Roman Empire from disaster on multiple occasions
I've never been so emotional during an intro, y'all rock so much for donating!!!!
>Boudica
>Symbol of revolutionary spirit
Ah yes, the great revolutionary whose crowning achievement was lead an army of hundreds of thousands to sack and butcher defenseless small towns and ambush tiny milita before getting curb stomped in their first real battle (against an army composed of mostly conscripts and formerly retired legionnaires gathered at the last moment that they outnumbered more than 10 to 1)
Boudica's husband had only been allowed to remain king because he had agreed with the Romans when they invaded that he would be the last of his line and not cause any trouble. His will was in direct contradiction to that agreement to collaborate with the new regime. Also, when you want to throw an ultimatum at the Roman Emperor, first check whether it is Nero. Boudica could have retired a rich and influential Roman citizen. She preferred to make demands that any politically savvy British chief would know would bring retribution. Then she tortured and killed many ordinary people who were doing the same that she had as a Roman citizen for two decades but they had vastly less money. Boudica was a very successful war criminal, she slaughtered many, many more civilians than soldiers. She became a symbolic hero of noble British resistance to the British Empire when the Victorians got sentimental about British history. Caractacus was a better example of a king and rebel warrior, who gave us the nucleus of the myth of King Arthur.
I know it's too much to expect given Blue didn't have creative control over the roster of women in this video, but when I hear "martyred female revolutionary leader" I immediately think of Rosa Luxemburg.
She was a Polish-German contemporary of Lenin and supported the Bolsheviks during WW1, going so far as to support her own country's attempted workers' revolution in 1919, whose success could have meant the spread of Bolshevism into central and western Europe, and would have completely smothered German fascism before it could even germinate. The same German social democrats who backstabbed the German working class by supporting the war in 1914, and who held power in the new Weimar government by 1919, doubled down on their treachery by ordering the Freikorps paramilitary (a.k.a. future Nazis) to kill Rosa and her comrade Karl Liebknecht in the process of suffocating the attempted revolution.
Honestly, The fact that I can name a lot of other amazing women through out history, that isn’t included here, is amazing. Women and men might not have been on equal footing, but that did not stop any of these, and manny other, women from being amazing badass queens.
Nobility does help.
Other women who left their mark in history: Lady Ada Lovelace - The worlds first programmer (Babbages Difference engine), or Marie Curie - the only person to win 2 nobel prizes (Physics + Chemistry).
(shhhh several people won two Nobel prizes, but she was the first one to win two, is the only woman with 2 Nobel prizes to this day and one of only two people to get two Nobel prizes in different fields)
Sappho of Lesbos I always found interesting tbh.
I took a creative writing class in college last year where I wrote a short story about a reincarnation of Sappho crushing on a reincarnation of French opera singer and duelist Julie d’Aubigny…
My professor loved it 🤣
This is awsome. And since there are so many awesome women, I would love this as a series.
3:30 After watching 'One Topic At A Time' vids. I am quite aware of Sapho. If you haven't heard of it, there's a Redit called 'Sapho and her friends' which is devoted to looking at gay erasure.
Why is the subredit about Gay erasure you ask? Well historians were prudes and decided that all of Sapho's poems were just about 'her good friends' and not that she was a full on lesbian. The word lesbian has its roots in the island that Sapho lived on, the island of Lesbos.
Can y’all do some more of these? There are so many amazing women in history that aren’t commonly known but should be
Im so happy that you included Queen Lili’uokalani!!!! Thank you so much! She was such an amazing woman and its so nice to see when people talk about her and her legacy.
woman: we like history too
man: no no you need to....NO!!!
seriously this is a big problem in online history nerd circles
No one has a problem with that. There are just not infoof women.
Women am I right
uhh, no men in their right sense of mind would deny women in history. Do you have citations and references to your claims? Because that notion sounds absurd.
Misogyny in academia and in historiography is pretty severe, though we are getting better these days. I could go into detail if you wish, but there’s a lot.
@@lindenshepherd6085 Please enlighten me. I rather have something to cite at least when I encounter similar discussions again in real life. Because gender shouldn't be a key factor in general science and history.
Hey OSP! Chinese guy here.
In the cards there is a character called "Ching Shih", and I actually had to look it up since I had no idea who that was.
Apparently it was Zheng Yi Sao (郑一嫂, lit. "Zheng Yi's wife"), and "Ching Shih" (郑氏, lit. "of the Zheng family", as wives used to take the surname of the husbands) was in Cantonese, a language I don't speak. I am sure you know that she was a famous Qing-dynasty pirate and girlboss by trade.
Well, overly awkward comment over, I guess. Keep up the good work!
I'm in love with the fact that a HUGE number of the comments down here are just people saying "well don't forget about X, she was ALSO really important and cool!"
Personally, I nominate Mary Shelly: founding mother of science fiction, and more goth than you'll EVER be. Seriously-- she snuck out to meet her lover (and also... "meet her lover") on her mother's grave. Vampire queen shit.
And Mr. Lovecraft says that graveyards aren't great places for a first date!
That's messed up.
Huh wha... WTF
That was a great tour of who, when, & where of some awesome ladies.
"they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one's nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.”
― Anna Comnena,
one of my fav vids youve put out for sure. always love hearing about cleopatra, sappho, and ching shih especially
It's First time I have seen someone talk about Gargi out of Indian History circles. Great work
Add another girlboss to your list: King Tamar of Georgia/Saqartvelo, her era was called the golden ages, because of how she was such a great ruler and just made everything so much better. She was also the only women royalty in Georgia's/Saqartvelo's who got the title of king instead of queen.
Olga of Kiev is iconic and every time people forget about her I cry because she was SO important to the way history of Eastern Europe developed and she was actually one of the first buddies with Byzantines later this will develop into impact on a lot of culture AND the way she strategised to keep Rus independent is just mwah
What about Wu Zetian? China’s only woman emperor.
And Lady Fuhao, of the Shang dynasty.
There was another Empress that ruled of China. Empress Cixi. Qing Dynasty.
@@kylewilliams3031 Cixi ruled as an empress and regent, not as an actual Emperor. Wu Zetian actually ruled as an emperor.
This needs a Part 2 with Saint Olga of Kyiv.
I would like to add Milunka Savić to the list.The most decorated female soldier in history.She served from 1912-1918 in the balkan wars as well as the first world war.
I hope this deck does well because there for sure are many more amazing women that could/should be highlighted for a second deck or even enough to have a full deck of 13 different women for each suit.
Could even set up themes for the different suits like: spades for warriors/generals, hearts for the saints/poets, diamonds for science/tech/medical, and clubs for achievements (I'm thinking like Amelia Earhart) just spit balling ideas. Anyone can feel free to use these ideas.
It's incredibly impressive a pirate managed to retire in an age where the end of a pirate tended to be violent and or humiliating (especially as a woman). Also, if I recall, Ching didn't just straight up surrender per say. She recognized she couldn't do this forever, and negotiated a retirement plan to remarry a government official for political protection in exchange for an "apology & loyalty" to the emperor. To which I think she was laughing the whole time inside while pledging.
She was also incredibly structured in her reign. There were lots of rules for her pirate crews that gave protection not only to each other but also to women in particular (I believe rape ended in beheading for the offender).
I'm not sure about THAT SPECIFIC penalty, but when "be brought to death" comes to mind, I thought they'd be straight up brought to the sword or fed to the sharks
Awesome stuff here, Blue!
No mention of the Kandake/Candace of Nubia?!
As Beyonce once said… “Who run the world? Girls”
Yea it never made much scene to me
And Like A Boy by CIARA (Kinda)
@@kaloyanmanchev6613 pretty sure they just said it to get "you said the right thing" points
smash the matriarchy
@@Rowan_A_Boat GENIUS!
There are three queens I wish had been at least mentioned or got their own spots on the list: King Kristina of Sweden, Queen Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden, and Queen Louise of Prussia. The first two left a big cultural impact on Sweden, while Louise of Prussia was an incredible diplomat and was even praised by Napoleon. She was also known for her generosity towards her people and she was incredibly beloved
kristina did little but to ruin sweden as a nation, sure culturally she did STUFF but they costed a lot, I can't argue too much about Louise of Prussia, whilst Lovisa Ulrika I guess could be a candidate but she did very little in comparison to others
Yes! This week's Wordle Pokecatch (me screenshoting the upload seconds after it goes live) is another success!
I really appreciate that you picked a variety of influential women from warriors, a pirate, politians, religious leaders, etc. Showing that in all positions you are important.
Heck Ya!! Tomoe is so cool!
Please do a part 2 of this. There are so many great women out there who have done Great deeds and accomplishments that need to have their stories told. I would love to see your take on many of them including Good Queen "Bess" AKA Queen Elizabeth the First.
Good Queen Bess brought about the Golden Age of of prosperity to England and she was a patreon for William Shakespeare and Francis Drake. If you were to look up the definition of a queen, then you would see a picture of Queen Elizabeth as the ideal example of a Queen.
Anyway, this was an enjoyable video to watch. Thank you so much, Blue.
Fun fact: Japan Heian period noble men handle the state while noble women handle litterature(& culture in general). This is why some male poet back then was pretending to be women, because a man can't possibly write something worth reading
Aelia Pulcheria is one of my favorite women in history, at the age of 15 or so she became regent of the Byzantine Empire for her younger brother and managed to wield significant power in the patriarchal country despite her age and gender. She ruled for years before her brother Theodosius II became emperor at which point she advised him in the affairs of state and probably continued to wield a lot of control of the empire even as an unmarried imperial princess. She only ended up marrying the Marcian, after her brother's death in 450. I can only imagine the strength of will and intelligence it must have taken to navigate imperial politics as a young woman in the eastern Roman empire and manage to not be forced into marriage.
TH-cam: Nudity is ok in the context of art, especially classical art
art: Sometimes people are naked
youtube: UNACCEPTABLE!!!!
Omg so excited for those cards, itll go great with a set I got from the Boeing museum of flight which was same concept but women in STEM fields!! Tysm for this!!!!
Quick indeed, I would honestly preferred this as mini series instead
Probably would have taken too long to release in time for the kickstarter.
6:13 also there’s a layer in London archaeology called the boudica destruction horizon witch is metal
Happy women's history month!
WTF THERE IS A WOMEN HISTORY MONTH ?
Kazakhstan recently made a movie called the Legend of Tomiris - about the real Massagetae queen who opposed Cyrus the Great. It's free on TH-cam to watch and I don't think it has gotten enough attention.