Jack Weatherford

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Well, by then, he'd already been dead for 51 years.

And then no statue until the 21st century.

The Secret History is a very unusual document, and I happen to love it very much.

But I said, you know, Genghis Khan allowed nothing to be written about him in his lifetime.

People couldn't take notes.

Even the army was—he—Genghis Khan—

ordered the invention of the alphabet for the Mongol people, and it was adapted from the Uyghur people.

And so to this day, it's often called the Uyghur alphabet, the Uyghur alphabet.

So he had ordered that, and he'd ordered his children to learn to read and write, and some did.

I think most did not, but some did.

But

One of the things he did with every campaign, even the one at the market when he rescued Berta, was he always adopted one orphan.

And that child became a full member of the Mongol nation in his household.

His mother Erlun would raise the child.

So she eventually had a whole household full of boys of different tribes, but they all became very high-ranking members of the government.

And one was a Tatar boy who turned out not to be so great as a soldier,

but he could read and write.

He was the best.

And later, eventually, he became the Supreme Judge, appointed by Chinggis Khan, of course.

And so when Chinggis Khan died, he recognized it was important not just to write down the law.

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