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Hello and welcome to PRISM of the past past a weekly series about historical events, people, and situations from fascinating to the forgotten.

I'm the aluminati and today we're going to be addressing one of the most badass women in history

that I think I've ever stumbled across. I've been obsessed with her story and her history and everything

for years even though I cannot pronounce her name for shit.

Her name is Empress Wu Zetien and I'm going to be simplifying things just a little bit today

I'm not going to cover every single thing but she is by far one of the most fascinating

empresses of China and I like absolutely love looking into history about her so I

figured I'd share. So let's take a look at some of the highlights of her

history and what happened during her rule

and just jump right into it. So some narrative say that she killed her sister, butchered her

elder brothers, murdered the ruler, and poisoned her mother.

She's been painted as a usurper who was physically cruel with,

quote, a heart like a serpent and a nature like that of a wolf, end quote.

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