Women in post-classical warfare - Quiz
Women in post classical warfare
  • 1. Who exposed her breasts and beat her chest with a sword to cause hostile natives to flee in the early 11th century?
A) Adelaide of Savoy
B) Sikelgaita
C) Freydís Eiríksdóttir
D) Akkadevi
  • 2. Which woman defended the fortress of Uplade in 1016?
A) Bergljot Håkonsdatter
B) Judith d'Évreux
C) Adela of Hamaland
D) Edith the Fair
  • 3. Who commanded troops in her own right during the 11th century?
A) Sikelgaita
B) Akkadevi
C) Matilda of Tuscany
D) A Nong
  • 4. Which Indian princess besieged the fort of Gokage in 1047?
A) Umadevi
B) Sikelgaita
C) Naikidevi
D) Akkadevi
  • 5. Who raised an army to kill the king for murdering her spouse and son in 1050?
A) Bergljot Håkonsdatter
B) Edith the Fair
C) A Nong
D) Adelaide of Savoy
  • 6. Who was defeated and executed in 1055, leading the Zhuang and Nùng minorities?
A) Akkadevi
B) Sikelgaita
C) A Nong
D) Matilda of Tuscany
  • 7. Who accompanied Robert Guiscard on military campaigns and rode into battle in full armor?
A) Richilde
B) Sikelgaita of Salerno
C) Matilda of Tuscany
D) Urraca of Zamora
  • 8. Who identified Harold Godwinson's body after the Battle of Hastings according to folklore?
A) Richilde
B) Urraca of Zamora
C) Matilda of Tuscany
D) Edith the Fair
  • 9. Who was captured fighting in the Battle of Cassel in 1071?
A) Matilda of Tuscany
B) Richilde, Countess of Hainaut
C) Edith the Fair
D) Urraca of Zamora
  • 10. Who defended the city of Zamora against her brother in 1072?
A) Edith the Fair
B) Richilde
C) Matilda of Tuscany
D) Urraca of Zamora
  • 11. Who led a military expedition to Rome in 1087 to install Pope Victor?
A) Urraca of Zamora
B) Richilde
C) Edith the Fair
D) Matilda of Tuscany
  • 12. Who participated in the First Crusade and fell in combat in 1097?
A) Isabel of Conches
B) Florine of Burgundy
C) Richilde
D) Urraca of Zamora
  • 13. Who was taken as a slave by the Igbo and later led the Yorubas to victory?
A) Moremi Ajasoro
B) Yennenga
C) Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg
D) Bertha of Rheinfelden
  • 14. Who led her own battalion among the Mossi people of Burkina Faso in the 12th century?
A) Bertha of Rheinfelden
B) Moremi Ajasoro
C) Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg
D) Yennenga
  • 15. Who led an army in the Crusade of 1101?
A) Clementia of Burgundy
B) Ida of Formbach-Ratelnberg
C) Bertha of Rheinfelden
D) Urraca of León
  • 16. Who 'fought manfully' in the Battle of Jedesheim around 1108 or 1109?
A) Bertha of Rheinfelden
B) Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
C) Urraca of León
D) Clementia of Burgundy
  • 17. Who raised an army in 1119?
A) Liang Hongyu
B) Urraca of León
C) Clementia of Burgundy
D) Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
  • 18. Who fought her half-sister for the city of Tui in 1121?
A) Liang Hongyu
B) Urraca of León
C) Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
D) Fannu
  • 19. Who blocked the advance of the Jin army with her husband in 1130?
A) Eleanor of Aquitaine
B) Liang Hongyu
C) Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
D) Fannu
  • 20. Who led an army against the Normans and was killed in 1136?
A) Eleanor of Aquitaine
B) Fannu
C) Aldruda
D) Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd
  • 21. Who raised an army for the crown of England after her husband was captured in 1130?
A) Aldruda
B) Fannu
C) Eleanor of Aquitaine
D) Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne
  • 22. Who accompanied her husband on the Second Crusade in 1145?
A) Eleanor of Aquitaine
B) Aoife MacMurrough
C) Aldruda
D) Fannu
  • 23. Who participated in the defense of Marrakech dressed as a man during the Almoravid dynasty's defense in 1147?
A) Aoife MacMurrough
B) Aldruda
C) Fannu
D) Tomoe Gozen
  • 24. Who conducted battles in Ireland on behalf of her consort from 1170–1176?
A) Aldruda
B) Tomoe Gozen
C) Aoife MacMurrough
D) Naikidevi
  • 25. Who fought in the Genpei War alongside men from 1180–1185?
A) Aldruda
B) Naikidevi
C) Tomoe Gozen
D) Hōjō Masako
  • 26. Who commanded an army to lift an imperial siege in 1172?
A) Naikidevi
B) Nicola de la Haye
C) Hōjō Masako
D) Aldruda
  • 27. Who rode with her spouse on campaigns and was never defeated in battle from 1182–1199?
A) Hōjō Masako
B) Nicola de la Haye
C) Naikidevi
D) Joan of England
  • 28. Who fought Muhammad Ghori in Mount Abu in 1178?
A) Nicola de la Haye
B) Umadevi
C) Naikidevi
D) Joan of England
  • 29. Who defended loyalist interests in Lincoln, England from 1191–1217?
A) Joan of England
B) Maud de Braose
C) Umadevi
D) Nicola de la Haye
  • 30. Who defended Plainscastle against a Welsh attack in 1198?
A) Maud de Braose
B) Umadevi
C) Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
D) Joan of England
  • 31. Who took arms against the lords of Saint-Felix and laid siege to Les Cassés in 1199?
A) Umadevi
B) Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
C) Maud de Braose
D) Umadevi
  • 32. Who commanded Mysore armies against the Chalukyas in the late 12th century?
A) Umadevi
B) Joan of England
C) Joan of England, Queen of Sicily
D) Maud de Braose
  • 33. Who was a semi-legendary Turkish heroine killed fighting the Abbasids in 769?
A) Valasca
B) Gülnar Hatun
C) Æthelburg
D) Parsbit
  • 34. Which Viking Age warrior was confirmed by DNA analysis in 2017 to be female?
A) Lagertha
B) A Solør Viking warrior
C) A Birka Viking warrior
D) Veborg
  • 35. Which Khazar noblewoman commanded an army against Armenia in 730?
A) Valasca
B) Gülnar Hatun
C) Æthelburg
D) Parsbit
  • 36. Who assumed power as the Khitan Dowager Regent in 982 and led an army against the Song dynasty in 986?
A) Gudit
B) Sugandha
C) Xiao Yanyan
D) Æthelflæd
  • 37. Which Ethiopian queen attempted to exterminate the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Aksum around 960?
A) Sugandha
B) Æthelflæd
C) Xochitl
D) Gudit
  • 38. Who was the Byzantine Roman army that attacked the Umayyad province of Melitene in 741?
A) A Byzantine Roman army
B) A Viking army
C) A Khazar army
D) An Abbasid army
  • 39. Which Toltec queen created and led a battalion made up entirely of women soldiers?
A) Gudit
B) Sugandha
C) Xochitl
D) Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou
  • 40. Who, according to legend, seized power in Bohemia and created a state ruled by women in 738?
A) Valasca
B) Æthelburg
C) Parsbit
D) Gülnar Hatun
  • 41. Who was the wife of Babak Khorramdin and resisted the Islamic Abbasid Caliphate between 816 and 837?
A) Xochitl
B) Æthelflæd
C) Banu
D) Sugandha
  • 42. Which Viking woman was buried with weapons in Solør, Norway?
A) Veborg
B) A Birka Viking warrior
C) A Viking woman
D) Lagertha
  • 43. Who led an army of 4,000 against Medina after the death of Muhammad?
A) Prophetess Sajah
B) Princess Pingyang
C) Khawla bint al-Azwar
D) Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
  • 44. Who assisted the warriors of her tribe in the battle of Yawm Halima?
A) Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
B) Halima, a Ghassanid princess
C) Princess Pingyang
D) Nusaybah bint Ka'ab
  • 45. Who led a revolt in the 6th century?
A) Clotilda
B) Amalafrida
C) Princess Pingyang
D) Basina
  • 46. Who organized an 'Army of the Lady' to help overthrow the Sui dynasty?
A) Hind bint Utba
B) Princess Pingyang
C) Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
D) Nusaybah bint Ka'ab
  • 47. Who led troops in battle during the 630s?
A) Ghazala
B) Aisha
C) Chen Shuozhen
D) Apranik
  • 48. Who participated in the Battle of Uhud and treated the wounded?
A) Hind bint Utba
B) Khawla bint al-Azwar
C) Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
D) Hammanah bint Jahsh
  • 49. Who nearly defeated a Byzantine Greek at the Battle of Yarmouk?
A) Wak Chanil Ajaw
B) Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
C) Aisha
D) Khawla bint al-Azwar
  • 50. Who led Berber resistance against the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb?
A) Negan
B) Chen Shuozhen
C) Kahina
D) Apranik
  • 51. Who declared herself empress regnant of China during a peasant rebellion?
A) Wak Chanil Ajaw
B) Chen Shuozhen
C) Princess Pingyang
D) Aisha
  • 52. Who led troops at the Battle of the Camel?
A) Hind bint Utba
B) Nusaybah bint Ka'ab
C) Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
D) Aisha
  • 53. Who ruled the Mayans and led military campaigns in the 640s–741?
A) Wak Chanil Ajaw
B) Apranik
C) Aisha
D) Khawla bint al-Azwar
  • 54. Who fought against the Muslim conquest of Persia as a Sasanian general?
A) Aisha
B) Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
C) Nusaybah bint Ka'ab
D) Apranik
  • 55. Who led a revolt in Poitiers using an army of criminals?
A) Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
B) Hind bint Utba
C) Basina and Clotilda
D) Princess Pingyang
  • 56. Who disposed of seven Byzantine soldiers with a tent pole during the Battle of Marj al-Saffar?
A) Aisha
B) Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
C) Wak Chanil Ajaw
D) Khawla bint al-Azwar
  • 57. Who led her army in China during the 6th century?
A) Nusaybah bint Ka'ab
B) Princess Pingyang
C) Lady Xian
D) Hind bint Utba
  • 58. Who participated in the Battle of the Trench carrying a dagger?
A) Khawla bint al-Azwar
B) Hind bint Utba
C) Aisha
D) Umm Sulaym bint Milhan
  • 59. Who acted as a war leader in China during the 1220s?
A) Yang Miaozhen
B) Doquz Khatun
C) Razia Sultana
D) Sulafa Khatun
  • 60. Who commanded the citadel of Ru'in Diz during the Mongol siege of Maragha in 1221?
A) Sulafa Khatun
B) Doquz Khatun
C) Razia Sultana
D) Yang Miaozhen
  • 61. Who accompanied Genghis Khan on a punitive expedition to the Tangut kingdom in 1226?
A) Doquz Khatun
B) Sulafa Khatun
C) Razia Sultana
D) Yesui
  • 62. Who led her troops in battle during her reign from 1236 to 1239?
A) Doquz Khatun
B) Razia Sultana
C) Magistra Hersend
D) Blanche of Castile
  • 63. Who accompanied Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade in 1249?
A) Doquz Khatun
B) Magistra Hersend
C) Razia Sultana
D) Blanche of Castile
  • 64. Who ordered that Christians be spared during the Sack of Baghdad in 1258?
A) Blanche of Castile
B) Sulafa Khatun
C) Razia Sultana
D) Doquz Khatun
  • 65. Who led troops in battle during her reign from 1261 to 1289?
A) Eleanor of Provence
B) Rudrama Devi
C) Isabella of Aragon
D) Eleanor of Castile
  • 66. Who wounded and captured a French knight during the French siege of Peralada in 1285?
A) Bertha van Heukelom
B) Dina and Clarenza
C) Mercadera
D) Joan I of Navarre
  • 67. Who was a relative of Kublai Khan and described as a superb warrior?
A) Women of the Mississippian culture
B) Urduja
C) Isabella of France
D) Khutulun
  • 68. Who commanded the garrison of Kildrummy Castle during the Second War of Scottish Independence?
A) Agnes, Countess of Dunbar
B) Joanna of Flanders
C) Irene Asanina
D) Christina Bruce
  • 69. Who commanded the garrison of Didymoteicho during the Byzantine civil war?
A) Agnes, Countess of Dunbar
B) Irene Asanina
C) Christina Bruce
D) Joanna of Flanders
  • 70. Who served as a soldier in the Chinese army under the name Han Guanbao?
A) Joanna of Flanders
B) Cia Ordelaffi
C) Irene Asanina
D) Han E
  • 71. Who came to the aid of Lodovico Ordelaffi during the battle of Dovadola?
A) Joanna of Flanders
B) Irene Asanina
C) Han E
D) Cia Ordelaffi
  • 72. Who used female archers to defend baggage trains from 1364 to 1405?
A) Timur
B) Joanna of Flanders
C) Richardis of Schwerin
D) Han E
  • 73. Who led two military campaigns as Queen of Poland?
A) Han E
B) Joanna of Flanders
C) Jadwiga
D) Richardis of Schwerin
  • 74. Who led armies to assist her spouse after finding him dead on the battlefield in 1389?
A) Foelke Kampana
B) Jadwiga
C) Richardis of Schwerin
D) Han E
  • 75. Who took part in a lance duel while dressed as a man in 1395?
A) Jadwiga
B) Richardis of Schwerin
C) Foelke Kampana
D) Agnes Hotot
  • 76. Who accompanied her son on military expeditions in the 15th century?
A) Cecília Rozgonyi
B) Margaret of Bavaria
C) Tang Sai'er
D) Qutlugh Nigar Khanum
  • 77. Which woman started a rebellion against the emperor of China in 1420?
A) Joan of Arc
B) Philippa of England
C) Cecília Rozgonyi
D) Tang Sai'er
  • 78. Who commanded her own ship in battle toward the Ottoman Empire in 1428?
A) Cecília Rozgonyi
B) Philippa of England
C) Joan of Arc
D) Tang Sai'er
  • 79. Who was a soldier in Italy during the 1430s?
A) Jeanne des Armoises
B) Zaydi Yemeni chieftain Sharifa Fatima
C) Ida Königsmarck
D) Aldonça de Bellera
  • 80. Who conquered San'a' as a Zaydi Yemeni chieftain in the 1450s?
A) Sharifa Fatima
B) Elise Eskilsdotter
C) Brita Tott
D) Alice Knyvet
  • 81. Who served as a spy in the war between Sweden and Denmark between 1451–1452?
A) Elise Eskilsdotter
B) Pomellina Fregoso
C) Brita Tott
D) Alice Knyvet
  • 82. Who led a war against the German merchant class of Bergen in Norway in 1455?
A) Alice Knyvet
B) Elise Eskilsdotter
C) Brita Tott
D) Pomellina Fregoso
  • 83. Who defended Buckingham Castle at Norfolk against Sir Gilbert of Debenhem in 1461?
A) Alice Knyvet
B) Ólöf Loftsdóttir
C) Elise Eskilsdotter
D) Pomellina Fregoso
  • 84. Who staged and supported a rebellion against Lambert in 1466?
A) Pomellina Fregoso
B) Elise Eskilsdotter
C) Alice Knyvet
D) Ólöf Loftsdóttir
  • 85. Who was mortally wounded in battle in 1472 after disguising herself as a man?
A) Jeanne Hachette
B) Ólöf Loftsdóttir
C) Queen Margaret of Anjou
D) Onorata Rodiani
  • 86. Who rips down the flag of the invading Burgundians at Beauvais in 1472?
A) Jeanne Hachette
B) Caterina d'Ortafà
C) Queen Margaret of Anjou
D) Onorata Rodiani
  • 87. Who participated in the defense of Canet-en-Roussillon in 1474?
A) Margareta of Celje
B) Jeanne Hachette
C) Onorata Rodiani
D) Caterina d'Ortafà
  • 88. Who took command of the Mongol army and defeated the Oirats in the 1480s?
A) Mandukhai
B) Margareta of Celje
C) Swob Sjaarda
D) Caterina d'Ortafà
  • 89. Who defended her castle during a siege in the Netherlands in 1481?
A) Mandukhai
B) Swob Sjaarda
C) Katarina Nipertz
D) Margareta of Celje
  • 90. Who defended Raseborg Castle in Finland in 1487?
A) Mandukhai
B) Margareta of Celje
C) Swob Sjaarda
D) Katarina Nipertz
  • 91. Who defended her fort in Friesland in 1494?
A) Swob Sjaarda
B) Bauck Poppema
C) Katarina Nipertz
D) Ats Bonninga
  • 92. Who supervised and animated the troops against the Duke of Orléans in 1495?
A) Ats Bonninga
B) Katarina Nipertz
C) Beatrice d'Este
D) Bauck Poppema
  • 93. Who defended her fort in Friesland in 1496?
A) Bauck Poppema
B) Beatrice d'Este
C) Ats Bonninga
D) Caterina Sforza
  • 94. Who successfully defended Forli against a Venetian attack in 1499?
A) Ats Bonninga
B) Beatrice d'Este
C) Bauck Poppema
D) Caterina Sforza
  • 95. Who authored 'The Warrior Queens'?
A) Antonia Fraser
B) David Hay
C) Susan Wise Bauer
D) James M. Blythe
  • 96. Which publication includes a collection of 13 scholarly articles on gendering the Crusades?
A) The History of the Medieval World
B) The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046–1115
C) Gendering the Crusades
D) Women in the Military: Scholastic Arguments and Medieval Images of Female Warriors
  • 97. Who edited 'A Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence?
A) Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert
B) James Michael Illston
C) Mark D. Meyerson, et al.
D) Barton C. Hacker
  • 98. Which author explored the military leadership of Matilda of Canossa?
A) Susan Wise Bauer
B) Helen Nicholson
C) Megan McLaughlin
D) David Hay
  • 99. Which book by John Keay covers the history of China?
A) Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century
B) Harmony and War: Confucian Culture and Chinese Power Politics
C) China: A History
D) Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao
  • 100. Who edited 'Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century'?
A) John Keay
B) Keith McMahon
C) David E. Jones
D) Barbara Bennett Peterson
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