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)