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166. Genghis Khan: Lord of the Mongols

The Rest Is History

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Is It an Empire, or a Tribal Confederacy?

"Can we properly call his holdings an empire? I think at this stage it's a tribal confederacy," he says. "They do bring in stators to run the thing for them, basically persian and chinese." He adds: "It is a quintessential example of small government in practice".

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