In the 11th century, the enchanting Berber queen Zaynab Nefzaouia mastered the art of commercial and political negotiation. Today, she tells us about her expansion plans for the Almoravid empire. Its territory included Morocco, the Western Sahara, Mauritania, part of modern Mali and western...

The legendary Ching Shih, nicknamed "Queen of the Pirates", is no fictional character! Born in China in 1775, Ching Shih, whom legend has it was once a prostitute, was in fact the terror of merchant ships in the China Sea in the early 19th century. A true military genius, when her pirate husband...