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Resisting Empire: Queen Amanirenas

It's a Continent by W!ZARD Studios

Sep 16, 202500:17:32Society & Culture

We travel back to the ancient world to spotlight Queen Amanirenas of the Kushite Empire. Known as one of the most powerful Kandake (queen mothers) of Kush, Amanirenas led her people in defiance of Rome after the conquest...

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