I’d like to be a fly on the wall when Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, and Bai Qi discussed war and empire building.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall when Hannibal Barca, Alexander the Great, Genghis Kahn, and Bai Qi discussed war and empire building.
And why are they all dudes.
Thousands of years of patriarchy means there are more dudes, both in-power and remembered, who are major figures. The selection pool, unfortunately, is not equal by the biases of historical societies and the records they left behind.