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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 Secret History of Chingas Han

A Mongolian girl was taken by her captors and never saw again. She had been with a young man for years, but she knew they would kill him. The two old widows of a former Khan held the ceremony to move in the Spring. They did not invite birta when they moved off; then she came. But they said, you're the one for whom the law says we do not have to ask you.

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