During Wu's life, overland trade routes brought massive entrepreneurial opportunities with the West and other parts of Eurasia, making the capital of the Tang Empire the most cosmopolitan of the world's cities.

The only female Chinese Imperial ruler was Empress Wu Zetian of the early Tang dynasty. Only two other women nearly reached such a high[, ]Imperial position - Empress Lu of the Han dynasty and Dowager Empress Cixi of the last Qing dynasty.

anglophone translation: wu, fou, lin, shei, shei; Wu, Wuhou, Wu-hou, Wu Zhao; han, lou, lou, shou, shou, yao, yao; Wenshui now Shanxi
romanization (1912)
The [romanization] of Empress Wu (Zeitan)
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