Jack Weatherford
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first heard Aug 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast · #476 – Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire · 1 Aug 2025
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He said, well, he slept in the daytime when it was warm.
He walked at night when it was cold, even though this was the summertime, the nights can be quite cold, especially on a mountain.
And he sang loudly all night long to keep the wolves away.
And he knew what to eat.
And then he walked until he found water moving, and then he would follow that water down to the next.
He lived.
And I realized, the boy falls from the horse, his mother's not going to be there.
She knows that.
And it's probably hard for her, too, to see her boys suffer, but she knows.
You have to be able to take care of yourself.
And with the weather, for example, often in that time, and still today, some people, if they can have the privacy to do it, the men will strip naked in the first heavy snow and roll around in the snow.
in order to prepare for the coming winter.
And the valley where I live, a lot of wrestlers come there to train in the summertime for the competition.
And the water's very cold coming down from the mountain.
And every day when there's a break, they go down, they take, again, they do not get in the water, never, but they take the water and they pour the cold water over themselves.
And yes, that's refreshing to them, refreshing.
The Mongol, the horse, and the bow were a perfect combination, and it was the most lethal weapon known to the world before the modern era.
It was incredible, the synchronization and the timing of the movements, and also the years of skill, the fact that from absolute birth, the Mongols would be on a horse.
And by three years old, they would probably be riding alone on the horse.
Now, when I first went to Mongolia in the 1990s, at that time, all jockeys on horses for races had to be under six years old.
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