Jack Weatherford - The Secret History of the Mongol Queens -- Encore Presentation
34 Circe Salon -- Make Matriarchy Great Again -- Disrupting History
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Is the Bride a Little Bit Older?
The idea of bringing the young boy over to the new family. Why is the wife a little bit older? It's just that's been sort of a tradition. Even with Chingka's Han, he never owned his own gear in his whole life. He always depended on that of his wife. So it may have been a sort of, you know, it's for the good of the whole tribe. But in doing so, they made the decision to be extremely cruel to this family unit.
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