Jack Weatherford

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

I said, the mongrel and the horse, they live together, they know each other with every twitch of the muscle, and they smell the same.

Well, I was saying it just not to be insulting about anything, but they have that deep intimacy, and the horses do know their owner from the smell.

This is very important.

It's also important for Chinggis Khan because they made the flags, what they call the sult, out of the

horse hair from their own horses.

And so in battle, they used it for a very practical purpose, and that is the horses would return to their source because they knew the smell of their flag,

It was other members of their own herd.

So the language itself, I have never, ever mastered all the words just for the colors of horses, much less for all the other things about it.

I can remember Mongolians being out there in the countryside.

They say, oh, I want to learn English.

I say, okay, yeah, that's nice.

You teach me some words in Mongolian.

I teach you the words.

Okay, say, what color is that horse?

I say, brown.

Okay.

They would say, brown.

I'd say, yes.

Okay.

What color is that horse?

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