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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
At the end of the debate, unable to convert or kill one another, they concluded the way most Mongol celebrations concluded, with everyone simply too drunk to continue.
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Jack Weatherford _ Indian Givers: How the Indians
The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the factories of Manchester and Liverpool-it began in the mines and on the plantations of America.
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
keeping with the laconic Mongol traditions, he warned his sons not to talk too much. Only say what needs to be said. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words: "He can never be happy until his people are happy." He stressed to them the importance of vision, goals, and a plan. "Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others,
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Jack Weatherford _ Indian Givers: How the Indians
discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
It was almost as though they wanted to reach back through the centuries to offer these small gifts of nourishment and warmth to the fleeing and frightened Borte as her kidnappers slung her on a horse and galloped away with her to an unknown future. It was as though the members of our muted group wanted to tell her, their mother, that everything would be all right, that she and they, her children, would survive it all for eight more centuries. After all, they are still the children of the Golden Light, the offspring of a wolf and a doe, and in the wispy clouds of the Eternal Blue Sky of Mongolia, the Spirit Banner of Genghis Khan still waves in the wind.
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Jack Weatherford _ Indian Givers: How the Indians
Tobacco was the first of the New World drugs to be widely accepted in the Old World, and the European zest for it played a major role in opening North America to colonization. Contemporary civic mythology of the United States overlooks this role of America as drug supplier to the world.
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
This information in turn greatly influenced our understanding of Genghis Khan's field methods and how he treated hostile civilians as animals to be herded but hostile soldiers as game to be hunted.
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
He had far more goods now than he could possibly use or distribute to his people, and he wanted to use this vast amount of new resources to stimulate trade."
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
called aral, "island," in Mongolian.
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Making of
for Temujin, such chosen forms of fictive kinship were already proving more useful than the ties of biological kinship.
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Jack Weatherford _ Genghis Khan and the Quest for
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 depend on those who valued riches over honor. "Such people are base, craven, and they are slaves by nature," wrote Juvaini. "Genghis Khan despised and destroyed them without mercy."22
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Jack Weatherford _ The Secret History of the
You have to remember life is short, but
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