What Jack Weatherford thinks about documentation
Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, and DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology emeritus at Macalester College.
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1 dated position, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Jack Weatherford has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWe really don't have any well-documented case of anybody, say, from China visiting Europe or Europe visiting China before the Mongols. But since Chinggis Khan, there's never been a year without contact between east and west. It was permanent. Once he created it, it was permanent.
↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 16th of 22 in this recording