History has a gravitational pull toward certain names, and it tends to pull hardest on men. The result is a curriculum in which dozens of powerful, consequential, and frequently remarkable women exist only as footnotes to the reigns of male relatives — or not at all. The twenty-six rulers below are not minor figures who happened to be female. They commanded armies, built empires, outmaneuvered Rome, resisted Portuguese colonization, and in sever…
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