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Anyone with a craft survived a Mongol conquest, whatever the craft was — skill was the one thing the Mongols never destroyed.

Drawn from what Jack Weatherford said

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war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

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  1. Jack Weatherford Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
    But the one thing that they valued were all the artisans, everybody who had a skill. And that skill could be making a pot. It could be hammering out a metal plate. It can be weaving carpets, it can be translating or just reading and writing. Every person with a skill was spared.

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    Watch from 1:46:46 plays here

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com

    31 Jul 2025 · video · 4h 30m · spoken · official transcript

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