AmazonHistory

A proud nation of women who fought for freedom, peace, and a place to live. Are fearless warriors, brave hunters, and yet many with gentle ways. Women warriors with no names are, fighting for the same, but using a different way. Leaders, prophets, muses, friends, and lovers that my friend is an AMAZON nowadays. They are enemies of injustice and cruelty, and they will always fight for a better treatment and a decent way of life. Their fights were done with swords, spears, and bows but now they use a pen and a piece of paper to fight for what is right and fair for all. Amazons of then and Amazons of now I see, they are brave warriors in search for a place they can call home.

Amazons and their history

Fierce warriors, they wielded spear and sword in defense of children and motherland. The ancient Greeks considered the Amazons their most fearsome opponents, defenders of an ancient woman. The historical factuality of Amazons as a people is a debate, which has raged in academic circles for centuries. The Greeks wrote that Amazons seem to have been a combination of fact, mythology. Historically, the Amazons seem to have been tribes of women, and maybe even men, who fought the armed invasions. Evidence of women warriors, not just as curiosities but also as standard features of society. The daughters of noble families were trained for battle and were skilled in the use of the naginata. Queens, and noblewomen had been trained in battle for centuries. Kings at times were protected by an elite bodyguard of women warriors. Warrior queens are a common element among the most famous. Savage warriors who fought on both sides of their war, and many women were decorated for valor during wars. Surely the preponderance of stories featuring women warriors points to their historical existence. The mythical Amazon has changed her image and function to suit the needs of the people and the times. She has also changed the battles she has fought. The Amazon has been chaste defender of the faith, sword-wielding, valorous crusader and loyal daughter of their tribe. Victorian explorers of strange lands, courageous warriors and futuristic seeker of new life and civilizations. She has wielded as her weapons sword and spear, and at times picks a peaceful approach and used their eloquent speech and pen to bring peace among them. The Amazon dream was always noble, courageous, and intelligent and above all independent, and women who have willingly or unwillingly earned the name Amazon often emulate these qualities. Each, in her own way, has sought and fought to improve the quality of life for herself, her sisters and her children. Some have purposefully sought battle, while others fell into the midst quite unexpectedly. Some fit the classical ideal of Amazon; that is, they fought on the traditional field of battle with swords and spears. For others, the field of battle was the to find a peaceful way to live. Profiled here are a few such Amazons. They have been divided into categories the traditional, social, political, even though many cross over into other Amazonian spheres and even into Muse.

Traditional Amazons

Women have always been warriors: they have borne spears, swords, bows, and arrows in defense of family, land and belief. CHOSE to be warriors, and prove to be as ferocious and ingenious as their male comrades were. In addition, these women nonetheless fit the profile of the Traditional Amazon. Women had a proud heritage as warriors; they were tough, brave, and determined; they were not held back by the sense of themselves as fair and weak women on the battlefields. They already had battlefield experience, served and fought on the front. Many were seventeen years of age some were younger and lied. Often their weapons were primitive such as rocks, stones, branches, swords and bones. Thrilled and terrified, described their encounters. Another described their collective fear and excitement. I live to relate their experience, brave and frequently bloodthirsty. Felt no knightly sentiments for them. These women are still remembered and honored today in contrast to believe that its female citizens have never been bloodied or muddied. In what may have been an attempt to ally with others against other tribes, or ensure the peace? Amazons were an impressive figure: stood over six feet in height; their red hair that hung past the waist. Garbed in a multicolored tunic, golden torc neck, and spear in hand, a mesmerizing figure. An eloquent speakers, and rallied the regional tribes. The Warrior herself led the fight, avenging and revenging in painful ways the injustice done to her sisters and tribe as a warning to others not to attempt to enter their land. If Amazons are taken prisoners during the battle tale by others, they take poison rather than be captured by anyone. They proved their worth in battle. They were, of course, the women in search of justice for themselves and their sisters. If they die in battle, they are buried with full honors at sunset. Rather, they were tribes, each with its own herds and own tents and own leaders. Disputes often arose between these tribes, and so fair arbitrators rose in power and prestige. There were some prophet among them, and were consulted on matters of progeny and herds and harvest. Tribes came to consult her and helped them settle their disputes between them. In those days, was also a war leader. A skilled orator and negotiator that traveled from tribe to tribe, and gathered more allies to protect each other against intruders. The council wills advice the War Leader of any strategy of attack. Therefore, has come down to prophet, Judge and war leader, to preserve peace among other tribes and towns near their land. In those times many tribes were divided into hundreds if not thousands, freedom fighters for right; they are supposed to be virtuous, noble, and free of the vices, which characterize the rest of humanity. Their beliefs were not of Christian descendant but of ancestral Gods and Goddesses. The Queen appointed women to all the highest places including her sisters. If anyone declared war on them or they may have broken the treaty and invaded; it is unclear; either way, they were defeated and driven away. Queen, was always trying to make alliances with other tribes for access to better and safer routes. Spinning and gossip were not the Amazon ways, but rather swordplay and the equestrian arts; it is said that they could guide the horses by holding the reins in their teeth, while wielding a sword in either hand to hold back the enemy.

Social Amazon

The crossover between social, political and economic Amazons is common, and a dividing line between them difficult to define for many women. There was no difference between they fought for improvement in all spheres. Their main concerned was those women's lives as whole, as well as social attitudes concerning women. They earned a reputation as one willing to defend the unpopular; often accepted cases that others refused, defending other Amazons tribe their thoughts and actions. Amazons were repulsed by the savagery of slavery: the rapes, beatings, whippings and mutilations, the cutting words, the humiliation, the separation of families, the degradation. And their commitment was influenced by their own life experiences: attempts were met to become good neighbors and to insure them that if they ever needed help from intruders that they could count on them to help out instead, they were encounter with hostile words and violence.

Political Amazon

Politics has traditionally been a man's sphere, as history would have us believe. Never mind the significant number of Queens, Empresses, princesses, chiefs and various other women who have wielded political power in the past. However, they were a select few, born into a privileged class. It is only in recent times beginning in about the seventeenth century in the West, and later in other areas of the world that other social classes began to fight for their political rights. The women profiled here (Aung San Suu Kyi, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Christine de Pizan, Flora Tristan y Moscosa, and Clara Zetkin) have all lent their voices and energy to the fight

History written by: Gabrielle