Jack Weatherford - The Secret History of the Mongol Queens -- Encore Presentation
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History
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Mongol Culture
In the tradition of this time, the men of the dead husband should step forward to marry her. But they did not. Even though those brothers had participated in her kidnapping. So they were violating their own culture rules. It's also a very cruel act. First violate your culture. You don't marry her. And then you take the animals away and leave them here to die.
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