Jack Weatherford

Jamukha.

You need to ask him to come also.

He said, I will send a message to him to get troops.

Jamukha was a boy about the same age as Temüjin.

And his family had winter camp close to where Mother Erlun was living with her children.

And so the two boys met during the wintertime.

In fact, they both claimed descent from the same woman about four generations earlier, or five, it's a little unclear.

She was a Urihanghai woman who herself was kidnapped.

And actually, Jamaka was the descendant of her father.

from the fact that she was pregnant at the moment of kidnapping, and then Temüjin is descended from her through the new kidnapper, Botanchar, her ancestor.

So they're both, as the Mongols would say, from the same womb.

They come from the same historic

However, their lives were similar and had both lost their fathers very early, but Jamukha also lost a mother, so he grew up in the household of his grandfather.

He had no siblings, unlike Temujin with a whole household of siblings.

He grew up with his grandfather, and his grandfather had several wives, so he grew up with a bunch of old women, which later he said he thought was an influence on his life.

But the two boys meet.

So they come from different backgrounds, and Jamukha is not as deprived by any means as the life of Temujin, but he has a certain emotional deprivation, I think, having not had mother, father, siblings, and he lives with these old, old people.

The two boys meet, they become good friends playing on the ice.

And so they're playing on the ice, and then...

Very early on, I think when they're about 10 or 11 years old, they decide to make a pact.