Jack Weatherford

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

They do not refer to the earth as land.

They refer to the earth as dalai, ocean, the sea.

And so water is very important.

And to learn the rules about water,

You don't camp by water.

If you camp by water, your animals and you are gonna be polluting it, messing it up.

So they're back, maybe in our modern terms, about a kilometer back.

You take the animals to the river to drink, and then you take them away.

You do not bathe in that river.

You take the water away from the river, and you bathe away from the river, so you do not pollute the river.

The rules are very strict and very clear, and they're from the time of Chinggis Khan, about how to deal with, but also, it's dangerous to live close to the river, because there are flash floods in the summertime, you could suddenly have it, and it could wipe away if your camp is right there by the water.

So the people, they live with nature in a way that I don't see anywhere else in the world.

And even today, with the changes with the cell phone,

and with solar panels, and they could get TV out in the middle of the step.

Still, they're living a similar life.

The young people, of course, want to drive a motorbike, but they're still herding cows and yaks and camels.

If it's on a motorbike, okay.

They're still doing it the Mongol way.

The Mongol and the horse are inseparable.

I wrote one line in the book that the editor removed because that was insulting.

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