https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/03/28/5-ted-ed-lessons-about-awesome-women-in-history/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/03/28/5-ted-ed-lessons-about-awesome-women-in-history/#comment-930346 Emilie Soffe Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:38:26 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7413#comment-930346 Good point, Shyamala! We wrote this post before we had a lesson on Cleopatra, but now that we have one — we need to add her. Thanks for the good idea! -TED-Ed

]]> https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/03/28/5-ted-ed-lessons-about-awesome-women-in-history/#comment-929998 Shyamala Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:56:58 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7413#comment-929998 How come Cleopatra is left out? She ruled Egypt too, for 20 years and she wasn’t the goody-goody types either!

]]> https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/03/28/5-ted-ed-lessons-about-awesome-women-in-history/#comment-906021 Faylinn Mon, 02 May 2016 14:31:11 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=7413#comment-906021 Lately, I have been really interested in strong women throughout history and have been researching everything I can about them. However, I had no idea that there was a female pharaoh and so I definitely want to look more into that. This is surprising to me, because I thought that women were submissive figures in Egypt back then. But what was a woman’s real role in ancient Egyptian society?

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