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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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Chinggas Khan's Daughters Cement the Commercial Structure of the Empire

The daughters of Jhinga Khan were the ones who put it together in the commercial sense. Once he passes, many of the men feel like, okay, now it's time to get rid of these women or push them aside and then sometimes brutally. Jack: Why didn't Chinggas Khan's mindset, sensibility, philosophy spread more easily to the men in his empire? That may not be something easy to answer, but what was it that happened?

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