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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 Multiple Wives

When Chingas Khan conquered a group, he would at least for a while nominally take a high ranking woman as a wife. But he also always adopted a boy. So adopting an orphan and remarring a woman, it was a way of incorporating that group.

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