Comparison Of Empress Wu And Pharaoh Cleopatra Of Egypt

Men have always ruled over everything from tribes to countries but there have been some women who held great powers. Most great women leaders only held these powers because of family connections or no male heirs were available. China and Egypt are two countries who had extraordinary women leaders who would stop at nothing to keep their throne. Empress Wu Zetian of China and Pharaoh Cleopatra of Egypt are two great women leaders who were not afraid to do things their way to get what they want. These two women ruled very differently yet they had a lot of similar qualities. Empress Wu and Pharaoh Cleopatra both used their beauty for their advantage in taking control and keeping control of their countries. Empress Wu Zetian became the first

He died when she was 18 leaving her the throne, she was intended to become the last queen of the Macedonian dynasty. The Macedonian dynasty ruled Egypt between the death of Alexander the Great and Rome’s takeover (Mark, 2014). Egyptian tradition states a female needs a male associate, to rule, her 12 year-old brother Ptolemy XIII was ritually married to her. Cleopatra stopped using his name on official documents and ruled without him (Mark, 2014). She had a habit of making decisions without consulting the members of counsel which upset the high ranking officials. Cleopatra fled to Syria, where she gathered an army to return and face her brother. She realized she needed the Roman support of Julius Caesar if she would gain her throne back (Tyldesley,

Wu and Cleopatra showed that with determination you could have what you want. Both leaders stopped at nothing to get what they wanted, they didn’t care who they destroyed on their way. Women in the 21st century doing more than just having babies and keeping the house clean. They are running fortune 500 companies, in politics, running for president and moving up in their jobs. When in charge you need to be strong it doesn’t matter if you are a man or a women. It is being showed more and more that a women can do a man’s job, we have lots of women who take on men’s jobs and do well now if only women got paid like men. They do the same work with the same amount of hours, they should get the same amount of compensation.
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