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Kings & Queens

Monarchy across history

The warrior queen
WALES 60 CE
THE DAWN
Queen of the British Iceni tribe,
Boudica was a Celtic monarch who
OF KINGS
SUMER 2900 BCE The city of Sumer is led a rebellion against the mighty
the site of the earliest
The first-ever recorded king Roman Empire. After her husband’s
known civilization
was Alulim, the first king of death the Roman invaders ignored his
Eridu and Sumer, in modern- wishes to leave the kingdom to his
day Iraq. Alulim is steeped in daughters, and instead publicly raped
legend and mythology and and assaulted them and their mother.
it is written that he ruled for In response, the queen led a revolt
28,800 years. This information that destroyed a Roman settlement,
was obtained from a causing the Romans to evacuate the
4,000-year-old cuneiform area. Boudica’s mighty force of 100,000
tablet discovered in the warriors killed an estimated 70,000-
early-20th century. Although 80,000 Romans and British in one
obviously not based wholly in of the bloodiest rebellions in history.
fact, it does prove that kings, However, she was eventually defeated,
and indeed monarchs, have after which Britain continued to be
existed almost as long as ruled as a Roman outpost rather than
humans themselves. by their own monarchy. During her reign Queen Victoria
was compared to Boudica

Monarchy timeline O The founder of the Constantine was O St Bartholomew’s number of dead vary
Estimates for the
Day Massacre
Byzantine Empire
the first-ever
Constantine the Great, Christian emperor King Charles IX and from 5,000 to 30,000
A battle of kings China united Roman emperor, his mother Catherine
Pharaoh Thumose III of QinShiHuangunifies establishes the city of de’Mediciinstigate
Egypt claims victory against China and becomes its first Constantinople, which themassacreof
the king of Kadesh in the emperor. His reign includes goes on to become one thousands of
Battle of Megiddo, the first thebuildingofthe first of the world’s largest citizens – mostly
recorded battle in history, versionoftheGreat Wall, and wealthiest cities Huguenots – at the
leading to the expansion of theTerracottaArmy and a between the 12th and height of the French
the Egyptian Empire. national road system. Qin Shi Huang searched 17th centuries. Wars of Religion.
15th century BCE 221 BCE for an elixir of immortality 324 1572
before his death
1000 BCE BCE 0 1000 1500 1600
1500 BCE
O One god O The unshakeable O WaroftheRoses O Prussia rises O The popular
Pharaoh Akhenaten and queen The houses of Lancaster Grand Master Albert of monarch
Queen Nefertiti first The one-eyed Queen and York fight for control the Teutonic Knights The Mughal Empire
introduce the concept Amanirenas of the of the English throne. founds the Duchy of triples in size and wealth
of a single god, build Kingdom of Kush, Yorkist King Richard III Prussia. He is the first under Emperor Akbar
the city of Akhenaton modern-day Sudan, is defeated by Henry European leader to the Great, winning the
and radically change the resists Roman rule and Tudor, who goes on to establish Protestantism as support of Muslim and
culture of Ancient Egypt. drives their forces from establish a lasting royal the official religion of his non-Muslim subjects
1375-1358 BCE Nefertiti reigned during her territory. 20 BCE dynasty. 1455-1487 Henry Tudor defeated lands. 1525 alike. 1556-1605
the wealthiest period of Richard III at the Battle
Ancient Egypt of Bosworth Field
The death and birth of England is conquered
monarchies ENGLAND 1066
GREECE 31 BCE When the childless King Edward
The Battle of Actium was the breaking the Confessor of England died,
point after years of mounting tensions it created a power void. Harold
between the pharaoh of Egypt, Godwinson was crowned, but in the
Cleopatra, her husband Marc Anthony Battle of Hastings his forces were
and Emperor Augustus of Rome. defeated and the king himself was
Augustus’s victory in a ferocious killed by William the Conqueror
sea battle led to the end of Egyptian and his army. William became
pharaohs and indeed the democratic the first Norman king of England,
Roman Republic. It cemented his own profoundly changing the country,
power in Rome, beginning the reign of forming close ties with France and
powerful Roman emperors that would laying the foundations for the future
Augustus’ reign marked a period of last centuries. William ordered the compilation of the English kingdom.
peace known as Pax Romana Domesday Book in 1086

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