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Women During the Classical Era
500 BCE-500 CE

  1. Women & the Han Dynasty

    • Ban Zhao (China)

  2. Southeast Asia

    • Trung Sisters (Vietnam)​

  3. Roman Empire

  4. Spread of patriarchy​​

  5. Boudicca (England)

Women During the Postclassical Era
500 CE-1500 CE

  1. Spread of Islam

  2. East Asia

  3. Western Europe

    • Hildegarde of Bingen (11th century-modern day Germany)

    • Joan of Arc

  4. Eastern Europe​

    • Theodora (Byzantine Empress)​

    • Empress Irene (Byzantium)

    • Queen Tamar

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