Famous Women in History
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INTRODUCTION
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Despite living in a world long dominated by men, women have shaped history just as much as their male counterparts. Women have held positions of power for millennia — as far back, at least, as 2400 BCE and the reign of the Sumerian queen Kubaba, the first recorded female ruler in history. Later came Boudica and Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Queen Victoria, and many other women who shaped the fates of nations.