Leanette Estrada Ms. Sharpe AP World History Chapter 10 DBQ 12/12/12 Chapter 10 DBQ Two major dynasties, the Song and the Tang were very great in power and wealth. In their own way women portrayed a powerful influence over many things. The status of women was portrayed by many factors, such as in the Tang dynasty women showed their influence through sports, laws, and art. In the Song dynasty, women portrayed their status through industrial and commercial activity, idolizing through literature, and agriculture. The Song women showed their status through industrial and commercial activity, literature, and agriculture.
Arguably women achieved the vote as the social position of women was improving which helped erode male prejudices against them. The Married Women’s Property Act of 1882 and 1893 granted women full legal control of all property they had owned at marriage or that they had gained after marriage, by earnings or inheritance. Changing attitudes was therefore an important factor in winning women the vote in 1918 The militant suffragettes
During the 18 Dynasty, The Egyptian Queens had a variety of roles which impacted on the establishment and the consolidation of the 18th Dynasty. Tetisheri, Ahhotep the Elder and Younger and Ahmose-Nefertari all had significant roles within Egypt and played a prominent role in the political life of the country at a time of economic and military expansion. Tetisheri was the founding mother of the 18th Dynasty as she was the mother of Seqenenre who began the war against the Hyksos. Furthermore, she is the grandmother to Ahmose who completed the expulsion of the Hyksos and founded the 18th Dynasty. It is evident that Tetisheri had a significant role in the establishment of the 18th Dynasty through her son and grandson.
Her book had a severe impact on the roles women played in society. According to Zhao, a woman must have: “humility, resignation, subservience, self-abasement, obedience, cleanliness and industry” (Buckley 72). Women must be humble and their sole purpose is to serve their husbands. Zhao also states that a husband and wife should mutually respect each other, according to the Yin-Yang duality philosophy. Women were seen as the Yin to the Yang.
Describe the role and status of royal and non-royal women in Persia society of this period. Supported by many historians and sources found, the Persian empire during the reign of Darius and Xerxes was strongly patriarchal. This is evident through the lack of sources of women during that time as the images that exist are mostly of men. Many Greek writers such as Herodotus did mention and name some Persian women of the court but these accounts are coloured by Greek prejudices of the authors so can’t always be reliable source of evidence. Thus, understanding of women in Persia during the reign of Darius and Xerxes is limited as sources found only briefly add to our understanding of the economic and social roles of non-royal and royal women throughout the empire.
Evadne took care of hers and Compton’s child Hope, while Compton was in a relationship with Jennifer in New York. Agatha was employed in many underpaid jobs such as being a seamstress, but they fire her but, she will never give up looking for one. As well as the independence of women, support is yet a big part of feminism. Support was evident when Agatha was working with Evadne as
Michael Feingold AP World History 2/10/12 Mrs. Sokol Compare and Contrast Essay In 201 BC Qin Shihuangdi united China and started the Qin dynasty, a powerful Dynasty that lasted until about 207 BC. It was succeeded by the Han Dynasty, a strong empire started by Liu Bang in 206 BC. Both were successful empires that made China a great nation. They had similar legal systems and government, and differed in their achievements. The Qin dynasty had a legalist government, which was highly bureaucratic.
Since Empress Wu lived during that period of time, she was well educated at home. Like most other rich and noble people of her time, she was taught to play music, write, and read the Chinese classics. During her childhood she traveled widely with her parents and thus developed a cultured and knowledgeable personality. Empress Wu started out as a low-ranking concubine of the emperor of the Tang court, T’ai Tsung. She was well known for her beauty, wit, and intelligence, and so that was why she was recruited to the Tang court at an early age of 13.
Frances Clarke, in an overview titled “Women in the Revolutionary Era” agrees with this idea, while asserting “The American Revolution was not much of a revolution in the lives of women, at least in a political or legal sense. Much like other so-called dependent groups (servants, slaves, non-propertied men) women were generally understood to lack the independence required of republican citizens” (Clarke 1). Within the political realm too, androcentric principles dominated all standards. Former U.S. President John Adams is quoted to have said “As to your extraordinary code of laws, I cannot but laugh” in response to his wife’s recommendation to include women when framing the constitution (Martin 332). Adams continues his onslaught of anti-matriarchal values and sexism by upholding “his commitment to the social hierarchy…based on the belief that women along with other disenfranchised groups must remain subordinate because they lack the capacity for reason, and therefore, for the responsible use of liberty” (Martin 332).
The Manifesto on Freedom of the Nobility, issued during the short reign of Peter III and confirmed by Catherine, freed Russian nobles from compulsory military or state service. Construction of many mansions of the nobility, in the classical style endorsed by the Empress, changed the face of the country. A notable example of enlightened despot, a correspondent of Voltaire and an amateur opera librettist, Catherine presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment, when the Smolny Institute, the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe, was