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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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Chingas Khan and the Four Wives

Chingas Khan had four wives, the main wife always Burta. Each one served a very different sort of role with him because since they owned the gear, one wife had to travel with him at all times. One would go off the war while the other stayed back in their own territory,. each had her own territory, managing that. It was a very complicated system of rules.

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