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Jack Weatherford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3108 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

What can he do?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Is he going to just resign himself to it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Is he going to go out, look for another wife?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And he decides that life is not worth living without Burshta.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He has found something good in this life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And if he has to die trying to get her back, he will die trying to get her back.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He needs allies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Allies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He goes to a man who ruled the Karyat people in central Mongolia, on the Tol River about where the capital Ulaanbaatar is today.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He goes there because that Wang Han is his name, or Torgal Han.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He goes there because Wang Han had been the lord over

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

his father at one point, and his father had gone on raids for him, and so he went there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And actually, he took a gift.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

That's because Busta's mother had brought a sable coat as a gift for Mother Erlund at that time of the marriage.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

So he took the coat,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And he took it and he gave it as a gift to Wang Han and asked for his help.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And Wang Han said, yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And he said, I will send some troops, but we need more.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And you need to ask Jamukha.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 โ€“ Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Jamukha.