The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

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 their story from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving only a hint of a fatherâ€™s legacy for his daughters.

The queens of the Silk Route turned their fatherâ€™s conquests into the worldâ€™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 Khanâ€™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 and son against mother. At the end of this epic struggle, the dynasty of the Mongol queens had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record.
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Two centuries later, one of the most unusual and important warrior queens of history--Queen Mandhuhai--arose to avenge the wrongs, rescue the tattered shreds of the Mongol Empire, and restore order to a shattered world. She led her soldiers through victory after victory. In her thirties she married a seventeen-year-old prince, and she bore eight children in the midst of a career spent fighting the Ming Dynasty of China 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 Mongol Nation of Genghis Khan and to preserve it for her own children to rule in peace.

Despite their mystery and the efforts to erase them from our collective memory, the deeds of these Mongol queens inspired great artists from Chaucer and Milton to Goethe and Puccini. And so their stories live on today. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford restores the queensâ€™ missing chapter to the annals of history.
Country USA
Brand Broadway Books
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber new18-20150817-b008441
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2011-03-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307407160

Country	USA
Brand	Broadway Books
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	new18-20150817-b008441
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2011-03-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307407160

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

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