Genghis Khan, Feminist
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
Crown Publishers (2010) Historian Jack Weatherford has conducted a single-handed rehabilitation of Genghis Khan. In an earlier book, he traced the conqueror’s impact on world history: one of the biggest and best-organized free-trade zones the world has ever seen; complete religious tolerance within the Mongol Empire; even the concept of diplomatic immunity comes from Genghis Khan. In this new book, Weatherford argues that it was his daughters, not his sons, who made Genghis’s empire a success. And when the sons ruined the empire, it was a woman who re-created Mongolia in the late 15th century. Temujin, the young man who became Gengh… Continue Reading (5 minute read)
Man had no shortages of daughters, too.
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Founders of big Japanese companies preferred having daughters because they could choose their son in law that will take over their company.
Brutal, but clever, the man was a master of the long Khan.
The man wasn’t stupid.
has there ever been a really good movie or series about Genghis? I feel like there’s a lot of untapped potential, here
You know who has more descendants than Genghis Khan? >!Genghis Khan’s dad!<
The Habsburgs had a motto, “Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube” – “Let others make war, thou, O happy Austria, make marriages”.
They expanded their borders (and shrank their chins) through marriages instead of war, and managed to hang onto a throne for over 300 years.
Genghis Khan been playing CK2
This is my chosen crusader kings 3 playstyle.
Honestly the more I play, the less sense patriarchal inheritance makes tbh.
Now that’s Genghsta