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The Secret History Of The Mongol Queens - How The Daughters Of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire: Jack Weatherford
The Secret History Of The Mongol Queens - How The Daughters Of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire: Jack Weatherford
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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from "The Secret History of the Mongols, " leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: Let us reward our female offspring. Only this hint of a father's legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. The queens of the Silk Route turned their father's conquests into the world's first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world. After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. One of the most important warrior queens of history arose to rescue the tattered shreds of the Mongol Empire and restore order to a shattered world. Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers through victory after victory. In her thirties she married a seventeen-year-old prince and bore eight children throughout a career spent fighting China's Ming Dynasty on one side and a series of Muslim warlords on the other. Her unprecedented success on the battlefield provoked the Chinese into the most frantic and expensive phase of wall building in history. Charging into battle even while pregnant, she fought to reassemble the nation of Genghis Khan and to preserve it for her own children to rule in peace. Despite the efforts to erase them from history, the Mongol queens live on.
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1st edition; as new; unclipped dust jacket; uncommon title, Autobiography/Bio/Non-FictionShare
