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 Tradition of Kidnapping of Women in Mongolia
The kidnapping of women was quite common at this time in Mongolian culture. The preferred way or the way that a young man was supposed to do it was his family would make arrangements with another family for marriage. Han's mother, Erlud, had been kidnapped by Yusukei Bhatar while he was out hunting and her new husband died shortly afterwards.
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