Show 47 5 Extra Wrath Of The Khans

“The classic example I love to use, being an American, it's probably a natural thing, is the way that the Native Americans were rehabilitated in historical writings in this country.”

“Take a guy, and we didn't mention him by name in the series like Jack Weatherford, who's written a New York Times bestseller on Jenghis Khan and the making of the modern world it was called.”

“Historian John Lawrence in his book, The History of Russia, wrote this, quote, the Mongols at their best could probably have beaten any army that Europe put into the field before the invention of the breech-loading rifle, end quote.”

“You can read interesting books like China Marches West or Michael Kortikovsky's fabulous book, Russia's Step Frontier, to see how the czar of Russia or the emperor of China controlled the behavior of the step nomads.”

“Michael Kortikovsky does a very good job, I think, in his book, Russia's Step Frontier, the making of a colonial empire, 1500 to 1800. He has a whole chapter that deals with this, you know, cultural question of rubbing against their neighbors like sandpaper.”

“When you read the secret history of the Mongols, which is not such a good chronicle to explain why things really happened, but it is a very good primary source to look at to explain the values of the Mongol people.”

“You can go back to the earliest form of Western literature we have, Homer's the Iliad, and you can see this question of glory brought to stark relief.”