Jack Weatherford

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So it correlates with other historic factors.

But then that gave me the time basis for figuring out a lot of other things.

History lives in the people.

just the experience of standing there.

I really set out mostly to visit the cities he had conquered across Central Asia and all.

And there was so little to learn.

I mean, everything was kind of known of whatever the chroniclers had recorded.

The archeologists had found whatever they had found.

And I get there and he hadn't spent much time there.

He didn't identify with it.

I wasn't feeling anything.

But in Mongolia, I would go to these places

And I would know, if Chinggis Khan came back today, he would know exactly where he is.

There's no road, there's no sign, there's no building, there's no power line going, nothing.

And just to smell the air,

to feel it, to see the animals, and to see what kind of animals live here, what kind of plants are growing here.

You begin to get a feeling for how he was thinking, and then you begin to see, ah, I know which direction they came from.

The only direction they could come from was that way.

You begin to see it, and his life starts to unfold in a very dramatic way, that I have the text

But the text, it's like it has no scenery, no props, nothing like that.

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