Because you are the daughter of your Khan father, you are sent to govern the people of the Oirat tribe.
Trouble. As an extension of a married woman’s ownership of the cart, the wife handled all issues related to money, barter, or commerce.
Prudent, steadfast, and courageous.
Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.
The royal Mongol women raced horses, commanded in war, presided as judges over criminal cases, ruled vast territories, and sometimes wrestled men in public sporting competitions. They arrogantly rejec...
Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America’s North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his expedition explored the coast of Canada, and like Cor...
Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan’s first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social...
He considered betrayal of duty, cowardice, lying, and laziness the vilest of all sins, and he praised those who put personal honor above their well-being, or even their life. He knew he could never de...
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...
By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into slavery without bothering to extend to them the right to become Christ...
Tons. Marco Polo, who sailed from China to Persia on his return home, described the Mongol ships as large four-masted junks with up to three hundred crewmen and as many as sixty cabins for merchants c...
The word algorithm was derived from al Khwarizm
On free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.
Khan’s mobile unit of doctors and pharmacists served him a tea made from orange peel, kudzu flowers, ginseng, sandalwood, and cardamom. Sipped on an empty stomach, the tea was guaranteed to overcome a...
For Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.
You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.
Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning large prairie, but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of the present state of Wyoming, its name achieved po...
While words may be altered or censored, the truth endures, even when not properly recorded. Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated.
War for the nomadic people was a sort of production.
Three of her sisters became queens along the Silk Route, ruling over the grand Turkic nations of Onggud, Uighur, and Karluk.