Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who became the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history. She was assassinated in 2007. Bhutto was born in Karachi, Pakistan former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was from Sindhi Rajput ethnicity and Begum Nusrat Ispahani, of Iranian Kurdish descent. Bhutto’s mother’s Kurdish culture played …
Ching Shih was a prominent pirate in Qing China who terrorised the South China Sea in the early 19th century by controlling the infamous Red Flag Fleet. Ching Shih was working as a prostitute on a floating Canton brothel in 1801 when the Pirate Cheng I either proposed they marry, or he sent pirates to …
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen. Nefertiti ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten from 1353 to 1336 B.C. She may have ruled the New Kingdom on her own after her husband’s death. Nefertiti and her husband were responsible for replacing Egypt’s chief god Amon with Aten, the sun god and the only god worthy of …