Jack Weatherford
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first heard Aug 2025
last 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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He becomes the protege, you could say, of the Niman people, but
When Genghis Khan attacks the Naiman, Jamukha deserts the Naiman.
He tells them, these people have snouts of steel and they eat humans alive.
And he was telling them all these horrible things about the Mongols, you know.
And Tayang Han, the leader of the Naimans, he was rightfully scared about them.
And he was left there, and he, in fact, was very quickly also defeated.
So Jamukha has not fought against Temüjin in this campaign.
And he's off with some of his people, Jataghan clan people.
He's off with them, and they see the turning of the tide.
You know, but he now wants to become the great khan of the steppe.
He has very few followers, but he takes the title Gurkhan, which is a very old, ancient, important title, but because Wang Han is gone, Torgal Han gone, that he could take this title and pretend to be the great khan of the steppe.
But his own people,
turn against him, and they capture him, and they think they will take him to Chinggis Khan.
It's not Chinggis Khan.
They'll take him, and they'll be rewarded, perhaps, for turning him in.
And Chinggis Khan does reward them immediately.
He kills them all because they have betrayed their leader, who is his anda.
It's a very strange encounter.
And so, supposedly, Chinggis Khan says to him, come back to me, save me, be beside me, protect me, be my shadow, be my safety guard in life.
And supposedly, Jamukha says,
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