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Jack Weatherford

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And so he was now suddenly...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

this unusual situation was created where a child is going to be born to a kidnapped woman who's being held by strange people, the Mongols, they were not her people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And he already had another wife or husband.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He had a wife named Xochitl.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He had at that time already one son.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Later he had another son with her.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

It was a very odd situation.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And in fact, the father, Yasuke, wasn't even there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

when TemΓΌjin was born.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

He was off fighting the Tatars, and during this campaign against the Tatars, he killed two Tatars.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

One of them was named TemΓΌjin Uge, which is sort of person of iron, is what it means from the Turkic, but today a part of also Mongolian language.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

So he came back, he had a baby, and he decided to name him Temujin, the person of iron, or Iron Man, we might call him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

After the man he killed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

So he has a kidnapped mother.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

She's a second wife now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

Not a legal wife, but just a second kidnapped wife.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And he's named for someone his father just killed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

It was not an auspicious beginning,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

And in fact, just episode after episode in his childhood was inauspicious.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire

The father and mother moved camp one time when he was quite young, and somehow they overlooked him and forgot him.