Jack Weatherford

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025 podcast

But anyway, now it's in all languages.

It's about in the world.

Can you clarify?

So there's two volumes.

Yes, that was translated and then published by Harvard University.

But the notes were just the notes from the scholar Francis Woodman Cleaves.

Those were his notes, not Mongolian notes.

There are Chinese notes that went with it because the Chinese had trouble understanding a lot of things.

And they also, they disapproved of some things, so they would try to put their own notes in the margins to kind of correct the story and explain away why...

The Mongols' women would be often marrying their stepson.

It just did not match with Confucian ethics.

So there's several things like that that they try to skip around.

So it's interesting just to read the Ming Dynasty notes that are attached to it.

But the document itself, Mongolia Nutsopcho, it's just so important.

And for me, it was the guiding document.

I didn't want to be guided by anything else first.

Everything else I would check to correlate and fill in blanks and give more information.

But I went to Mongolia to travel around to those places because they are so exact in there and to feel it.

And it's so important, I think,

Because history does not live in books.

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