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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. Our readingThe real source of the feuding that tore the Mongol steppe apart was women, which is why Genghis Khan's first law outlawed kidnapping and selling them.

    Their wordsLater, Genghis Khan will realize once he becomes Chinggis Khan, he will realize that the true source of most of the feuding on the steppe is over women. And later he will outlaw the kidnapping of women and the sale of women, in part not only because of what had happened to his mother, but what happened to him next in his life.

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 1st of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe section of the Secret History in which Genghis Khan rewards his daughters was cut out of the surviving text.

    Their wordsHe says, “Now, let us reward our daughters.” It's actually only a phrase. I said it as a complete sentence, but it's not quite complete. The rest is gone, cut out. It's missing.

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 22nd of 22 in this recording