Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey Primary & middle schools led by the brilliant Maximilian

led by the brilliant Maximilian von Spee

A very broad range of evidence is drawn upon

She spent her teenage years reading a lot of murder mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting herself (she didn't)

Leigh Bardugo

Amazons of Black Sparta, 2nd Edition: The Women Warriors of Dahomey Primary & middle schools led by the brilliant MaximilianThe only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth and nineteenth century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male