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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