The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.
Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of the Mongols.
Genghis Khan’s ability to manipulate people and technology represented the experienced knowledge of more than four decades of nearly constant warfare. At no single, crucial moment in his life did he s...
War for the nomadic people was a sort of production.
The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement Mound City in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but those mounds have since been cleared away to make room for th...
The Chinese noted with surprise and disgust the ability of the Mongol warriors to survive on little food and water for long periods; according to one, the entire army could camp without a single puff...
Following the example of Genghis Khan, the early Mongol rulers clearly recognized that knowledge constituted their most potent weapon, and controlling the flow of information served as their organizin...
Bukhara. Before the year ended, the Mongols had
You have to remember life is short, but
One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.
The word blizzard probably derives from an Indian word, although its origin is now lost. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first written record of blizzard comes from the frontiersman Co...
Get up early and go to bed late.
Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by t...
For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.
Be sincere always,
The poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.
Officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and poetic styles into which various words could be improv...
Importance of constant learning as the key to being a successful ruler.
Bear Indian names such as Yukon, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in the north, and Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Arizona in the south. Often these names reflect the tribal names of the people w...
Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.
