kings, queens, rulers, etc

The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, from 1136 until 1137, when at age fifteen she becomes queen of France. Includes historical notes on her later life.

When an impatient queen longs to taste the delicious but fragile melidrop fruit, two explorers use "Inventiveness, Desperation, and Perseverance" to try to bring it to her.

Discusses the life and political ambitions of ancient Egypt's most famous queen.

Presents the life of the Egyptian queen whose dream of controlling most of the known world was never fulfilled even though she was allied to a powerful Roman.

In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

Discusses the archaeology of the Valley of the Kings, where many of ancient Egypt's pharaohs were buried.

A picture book biography of Hatshepsut, a queen in ancient Egypt who declared herself king and ruled as such for more than twenty years.

Describes the life, battle campaigns, influence on the ancient world, and mythological status of the champion of the Greeks who marched his armies as far as India.

Contains twenty articles that provide accounts of political leaders and events that changed the course of world history,from Asoka, the Buddhist emperor c. 250 B.C., to Mikhail Gorbachev's destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Describes life in ancient Rome and the succession of emperors, from Pompey to Justinian, who ruled this empire.