Jack Weatherford

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

But it's extremely fresh.

It's coming out of Siberia.

It's coming out of the Arctic.

It sweeps down across Mongolia.

Cold is a dickin' sometimes, but it's always fresh.

Always fresh.

So you have the wind coming in.

You have the smell of the wind, but also then there's grass everywhere.

the smell of grass becomes very important.

Now, because of the particular location, from one year to another, one area may have grass one year and then drought the next year, another area has grass.

So you don't always know.

If it's not grass, it's dust.

You have dust going in, the dust doesn't smell so good, it doesn't feel so good.

But that's just one more part of the country.

The waters are mostly pure.

Now, unfortunately, there has been pollution in this century from mining in several areas.

But even when I was there, even today, when we go to some place like the Salink River, where we were talking about the market lift, so it's a place of pure waters.

And that's how Mongolians define their world, is by the water.

They don't, Chinggis Khan does not give lands to his sons to rule.

He gives waters and people to rule.

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