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Jack Weatherford - The Secret History of the Mongol Queens -- Encore Presentation

34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History

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The Secret History of Jangas Khan

Jangas Khan married his sons primarily to the daughters of defeated cons or defeated kings in the area. He wanted a well educated wife for each of his sons. For his daughters, it was a much different policy. And he allowed her to say face, essentially, even though the politics demanded that their political marriage be dissolved.

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