African Amazons (TRIH ep 317)
1500 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by anthropologist and historian Luke Pepera to survey female military and political leadership across African history. The conversation opens with the Dahomey Agoji (the so-called "Amazons") and their contested portrayal in popular culture, then moves to an extended profile of Njinga of Ndongo (a seventeenth-century ruler who negotiated with and fought the Portuguese, allied with the Dutch, and reconstituted her realm).
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Around 1500
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)