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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That is one of the powerful things about the Genghis Khan stories.
From absolute nothing.
He changed and matured in various ways over life, as we all do, or we hope we do, but he never became avaricious in any way.
He was never greedy.
He was never acquisitive.
He kept the simple life.
And part of the simple life for him meant that no one was allowed to write about him.
No one was allowed to make his likeness.
They couldn't paint a picture of him.
They couldn't make a statue of him.
No building could be built dedicated to him.
No palace, no tomb, no temple of any sort, not even at the point of death, the simplest gravestone.
Nothing, nothing.
And it's very hard to explain how he...
stuck to that, how he got it.
You're so easily corrupted by power, and yet he maintained this very fierce attitude towards, his relationship was with the people around him, his guard mostly, or his private part of the army that went with him, the central part of the army.
That was his relationship, his family.
He had four wives.
This was what was important to him.
And in fact, no portrait was painted until 1278.
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