Emperor Ruizong of Tang

Having tried to consolidate power for herself by taking it from her brother, husband, and co-ruler Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra was barred from entering Alexandria during a visit by the powerful Roman general and future ruler, Julius Caesar. To make her way to the meeting, Cleopatra was said to be rolled up into a carpet which was then presented to Caesar. There, she made a deep and lasting impression on the future Roman Emperor, who would father a son to her (Crawford, 2007). Likewise, Empress Wu used seduction and planning to become the prized consort and confidant of Emperors Taizong and Gaozong. It is rumored that Wu achieved this by allowing the Emperors to satisfy their most forbidden sexual pleasures (Dash, 2012). Of course, these tales of feminine seduction may themselves be nothing more than myths inspired by restrictive gender roles. Nevertheless, it is undoubted that both women utilized the positions they were in, as women, to achieve an unprecedented degree of power and influence in societies were female rulers were unheard…

Assignment 2: Project Paper Comparative Essay Vanity Talbert Professor Lilia Fontana HUM 111- World Cultures I August 27, 2016 Comparing Ancient Female Rulers Juxtapose the Tang Empress Wu Zetian also known as Empress Wu or as Wu Zhao; ruled China throughout 690-705 AD) with the Pharaoh Cleopatra (ruled Egypt around 51-31 BC). For this task, we will contrast two of the utmost remarkable woman Emperors in world history; Empress Wu and Pharaoh Cleopatra.…

Wu Zetian was the first and only women in China that ruled in her own right. Though, she did really bad things to get to that position. However, I believe that even though Wu Zetian did many bad things to became an empress, she ended up doing more good than bad for China. Wu Zetian was born during the Tang Dynasty. She was the daughter of a minor general called Duke Ding on Ying. Wu was born into a rich and noble family and was taught to play music, write, and read Chinese classics. By the age…

According to Li Xiu-ying, a bearer of the act of foot binding, “I knew that already because every woman I ever saw had bound feet. Before the Communists came I never even heard of a woman not having bound feet.” Foot binding began in tenth century China and was very popular during the Song and the Qing dynasties. Although it caused many health complications and lifelong disabilities, foot binding became popular by a process of displaying status and also embraced as a symbol of beauty in Chinese…

Empress Wu was probably the most controversial woman emperor that was able to reign china for many years. Empress Wu Killed many I mean many people in her circle, but She still was a Buddhist in everyone’s eyes which surprises me.The once reigning Emperor of China became a Buddhist because of her more than slight obsession of power and becoming the emperor of China. The buddhist religion was her weapon to get the Chinese people to believe that she was the next emperor of china chosen by god and…

Biography Wu Zhao was born in Wenshui Shanxi Province in 624 CE. Her family was very wealthy and noble. She was the daughter of Wu Shihuo a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty. Wu was pushed a lot by her father when it came to her education. She was forced to read and write and develop the intellectual skills that were for men during this time period. Fast forward into the future in 638 CE, she was actually selected by Emperor Taizong at the age of 14 to become a concubine for him. He would flirt…

During the ear of 600-1450, the Sui Dynasty started as a dynasty heavily depended on high taxes and compulsory labor, but changed to a bureaucracy more heavily based on merit, cultural advancement, and epansion in the Tang Dynasty, and then to appointed administration and smaller borders in the Song Dynasty, however throughout this period, the dynasties pushed high taxes on its citizens. The baseline is the Sui…

In the year 615, the Sui Dynasty is in distress as the emperor has been surrounded by the Türks, which was one of the 200 rebellion groups, at a place called Wild Goose Gate in northern Shanxi. Li Yuan (Duke of Tang), who is the maternal cousin of the Sui emperor, got word of this and led a rescue mission for his cousin. The rescue mission was successful and the Sui Emperor fled to his refuge in the south. The Sui emperor felt uneasy with his cousin so he sent two officers to keep watch of Li…

Due to Confucianism’s view that women are to be submissive to men in all levels of the social hierarchy, coupled with early text that shed negative light on the idea of female rulers. It made the idea of powerful women seem stranger and often unnatural since they would have challenged the authority of men. Rulers and influential women, similar to hens, represented dynastic decline. As a wife, Wu also broke standards set by Confucius followers regarding marriage. Chinese women could not have…

Introduction Cleopatra the Seventh, born in 69 BC (69- 30 BC) and Wu Zetian, born in 624 in Wenshui County, (624-705) were both women who ruled over the Egyptian and Tang Dynasties respectively. They ruled over their empires a time when women were not supposed to rule unless they did so by their husbands. Both were great leaders who seized the moment and eventually rose to power. They were intelligent and made unique achievements that improved the prosperity of their regions. The following paper…