This world is not only men's, women can also hold up half the sky, there have been countless powerful women in the world, Empress Dowager Cixi is one of them, but she can only rank third.
Third, Cixi
Cixi may have been the most powerful woman in Chinese history since the Zhou Dynasty of Empress Wu Zetian in the 7th century, but in fact, Cixi may be more powerful than Wu Zetian, an ambitious conservative leader. She opposed foreign powers and supported the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, and I put her at number three on the list anyway.
As we all know, Empress Dowager Cixi was one of the few women who stayed in power during the imperial system. In November 1861, Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong yixuan jointly launched the Xin You coup d'état, and then fell under the government three times until her death in 1908, ruling China for 47 years.
In China's modern history, when Empress Dowager Cixi is mentioned, people often define her as a generation of misguided state demons who "brought calamity to the country and the people, who were addicted to power as fate, vicious and cruel, scheming, ignorant, and stubborn and conservative" of the wrong country. For this reason, the people in the country have a wave of bad comments on her. It can be said that in the hearts of many chinese people in Cixi, he is a real traitor, a vicious and cold autocratic fool, who has been left with a stink for thousands of years.
Second, Empress Catherine (Catherine) II of Russia
Catherine II, Empress of Russia (reigned 1762-1796), also known as Catherine II or Catherine the Great. Catherine II, whose original name was Sophia Auguste, was born into a fallen aristocratic family in the Prussian city of Szczecin– the son of a general in the Prussian army, who was later made a duke, and the fief was the Duchy of Anhalt-Zerbest, which was nothing more than a small and humble principality in Germany at the time.
Sophia has a cheerful personality since childhood, lively and active, even a little naughty, and has great courage, often running into trouble. Sophia's father served in the army, worked hard, and did not care much about the family, so she grew up under the control of her mother. However, her mother is mean and picky, impatient in doing things, difficult to get along with people, and lives in Paris for many years, so Sophia has not been limited by her parents since childhood, so although she is a princess of the principality, when no one cares about her, she will run to the street to find children of the same age to play.
Third, Queen Victoria
Yes, at the top of the list is Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. I strongly endorse the choice of Queen Victoria as the most authoritative woman in history, as she is not only the Queen of England but also the ruler of the vast British colonial empire. Queen Victoria reigned for 63 years from the age of 18, the longest reigning female monarch in the world. Queen Victoria spent her childhood frugally in debt, often wearing only the same outfit and remaining modestly dressed after her ascension to the throne.
According to records, Queen Victoria's childhood life is not a worry-free, her father died of illness when she was eight months old, and since then the family has been in debt and hard to live, so she always wore only the same set of clothes when she was a child, and the concept she was indoctrinated with was that women's frequent dress changes were just a wasteful performance, a bad character, so Queen Victoria's wedding dress changed the tradition, unique, simple and revealed beauty.