Echoes of Power

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Cleopatra
2. Chapter Two - Julius Caesar
3. Chapter Three - Qin Shi Huang
4. Chapter Four - Ramses II
5. Chapter Five - Alexander the Great
6. Chapter Six - Genghis Khan
7. Chapter Seven - Attila the Hun
8. Chapter Eight - Tamerlane
9. Chapter Nine - Shaka Zulu
10. Chapter Ten - Boudica
11. Chapter Eleven - Joan of Arc
12. Chapter Twelve - Tokugawa Ieyasu
13. Chapter Thirteen - Hammurabi
14. Chapter Fourteen - Justinian I
15. Chapter Fifteen - Empress Theodora
16. Chapter Sixteen - Ashoka the Great
17. Chapter Seventeen - Suleiman the Magnificent
18. Chapter Eighteen - Queen Elizabeth I

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Cleopatra SHE WASN’T JUST royalty. She was myth in real time. Cleopatra VII was a strategist, a linguist, and a living force of charisma and control. The fate of an empire was in her hands while Rome circled like a lion. She spoke multiple languages, possibly more than half a dozen. She wasn’t even ethnically Egyptian, she was Macedonian Greek, but she became Egypt. Unlike her ancestors, she actually learned the language. She didn’t rule from the throne, she wielded it like a weapon. The Ptolemaic dynasty was falling apart when she was born. Backstabbing. Sibling rivalries. Straight Game of Thrones. She wasn’t supposed to survive, let alone rule. But Cleopatra didn’t climb the...