The video discusses the 10 most vicious female rulers in history. The list includes:
10. Julia Agrippina (Empress of Rome) - known for poisoning her husband and uncle, and manipulating her son Nero to become emperor.
9. Queen Zenobia (Warrior Queen of Palmyra) - led her army into battle and conquered parts of Asia Minor, but was eventually captured and paraded as a prisoner by the Romans.
8. Empress Wu Zetian (China) - rose to power through manipulation and violence, killing her sister, brothers, and even her infant daughter to become the only female emperor in Chinese history.
7. Queen Tamar (Georgia) - co-ruled with her father and later became queen, but was known for her ruthless suppression of nobles and clergy who opposed her.
6. Queen Isabella I (Spain) - started the Spanish Inquisition and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews and Muslims, as well as Protestants.
5. Queen Mary I (England) - burned hundreds of Protestants at the stake and exiled many more in an attempt to restore Catholicism in England.
4. Countess Elizabeth Bathory (Hungary) - tortured and killed hundreds of young women, believing their blood would maintain her youth.
3. Queen Ranavalona I (Madagascar) - decimated her population through slavery, beheadings, and boiling people alive, and was known for her brutal suppression of opposition.
2. Queen Rani Lakshmi Bai (India) - led a rebellion against British rule and was known for her bravery and martial arts skills.
1. Jiang Qing (China) - as Chairman Mao's fourth wife, she was instrumental in the Cultural Revolution, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
The video concludes by highlighting the ruthless and violent actions of these female rulers, who were just as capable of cruelty and destruction as their male counterparts.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. Empress Julia Agrippina of Rome was the sister of Emperor Caligula and mother of Emperor Nero.
2. Julia Agrippina was known as the Empress of Poison and was responsible for poisoning several people, including her second husband and her uncle, Emperor Claudius.
3. Julia Agrippina convinced Emperor Claudius to adopt her son Nero and name him his successor.
4. Nero took the throne at the age of 17, but Julia Agrippina ruled on his behalf until he banished her.
5. Julia Agrippina was eventually executed by her son Nero in 59 AD.
6. Queen Zenobia of Palmyra challenged the Roman Empire's global rule by leading her army into battle.
7. Zenobia became queen after the assassination of her husband, King Septimius of Palmyra.
8. Zenobia was the regent for her young son, but she ruled as the Warrior Queen, conquering Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine.
9. Zenobia was defeated by the Roman leader Aurelius and paraded as a prisoner in Rome before committing suicide in 274 AD.
10. Empress Wu Zetian of China was the only female ruler in Imperial China's 4,000-year history before Chairman Mao.
11. Wu Zetian rose to power through the Tang Dynasty court, becoming the consort of Emperor Gaozong.
12. Wu Zetian is said to have killed her sister, older brothers, and her infant daughter on her way to the throne.
13. Wu Zetian banished and executed anyone who threatened her rule, including her children and grandchildren.
14. Queen Tamar of Georgia is sainted in the Georgian Orthodox Church and appears on the Georgian 50 lira note.
15. Tamar co-ruled with her father, King George III, until his death in 1184 AD.
16. Tamar ruthlessly vanquished noblemen who questioned her rule and later murdered clergymen who opposed her.
17. Tamar married Russian Prince Yuri, who helped expand the Georgian territory, but she banished him due to his infidelity.
18. Queen Isabella I of Spain started the Spanish Inquisition and was known for her mean streak.
19. Isabella financed Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492 and expanded the monarchy's power by purging the nobles' influence.
20. Isabella and her husband Ferdinand reinstated Catholicism as the supreme religion of Spain.
21. Queen Mary I of England was the daughter of King Henry VIII and was sent away to Wales at the age of nine.
22. Mary took the throne after the death of her brother, King Edward VI, and embarked on a campaign to reverse her father's Protestant reforms.
23. Mary had 300 Protestants burned at the stake and 800 exiled while attempting to return England to Catholicism.
24. Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary was accused of bathing in the blood of young females to maintain her youth.
25. Bathory was from a distinguished family and married the local ruler, Count Nadasdy, who built her a torture chamber.
26. Bathory killed an estimated 650 young females, draining their blood and bathing in it.
27. Justice caught up with Bathory in 1610, and she was eventually imprisoned in a castle, where she was found dead in 1614.
28. Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar decimated the population from five million to 2.5 million during her 33-year rule.
29. Ranavalona sold her subjects into slavery, beheaded French and British missionaries, and boiled Madagascan Christians alive.
30. Queen Rani Lakshmi Bai of India led the 1857 Great Indian Rebellion against Imperial British rule.
31. Lakshmi Bai grew up mastering martial arts and refused to abdicate her throne to the East India Company.
32. Lakshmi Bai charged onto the battlefield with reins in her teeth and two swords in her hands, laying siege to the fort where British men, women, and children were slaughtered.
33. Jiang Qing was Chairman Mao Zedong's fourth wife and one of the architects and executioners of the Cultural Revolution.
34. Jiang Qing was a member of the Gang of Four and oversaw the destruction of ancient Chinese culture, literature, art, and architecture.
35. Jiang Qing referred to herself as Mao's dog and was responsible for the deaths of as many as 500,000 people from 1966 to 1969.