Jack Weatherford
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first heard Aug 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025
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And at this time, then, Jamukha is going to fight on behalf of his lord, Banghan.
The two of them do not meet in combat, but now their forces are fighting each other.
Yes.
It's hard to know what's going through their mind at that point.
We only have it later on.
when the relationship is being resolved in unfortunate ways, that they claim that neither one of them ever truly broke it because they never harmed each other directly.
And in fact, then Temujin eventually defeats Wang Han.
So he takes over central Mongolia.
He's starting to really rise up now.
And he has the title from his own people of Chinggis Khan.
They give him that at Blackheart Mountain by the Blue Lake.
It's a very beautiful, special place.
But he takes that title.
That's not a title that anyone had ever held that we know of, Chinggis Khan.
It was a new title that he just...
thought up, or somebody thought up, or somebody thought it had auspicious meaning behind it.
It's very close to the word tengis, which means the sea.
It could have had something to do with that.
Mongolians really like, we might say, puns of, they like words with multiple meanings.
And that's very important to them.
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