Convocation P.I.P.E. [Proud Indigenous Peoples for Education] 4/20/1989 Part 1

Part 1 of 2: Jack Weatherford gives a speech as part of activities for Native American History Week, sponsored by PIPE (Proud Indigenous People for Education). The week culminated in the first powwow to be held at Macalester. Reel #316, 40:0

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege.From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-personal-research/1193/thumbnail.jp

The Founding Indian Fathers

from Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropolog

The Silk Route from Land to Sea

The Silk Route reached its historic and economic apogee under the Mongol Empire (1207–1368), as a direct result of the policies of Chinggis Khan (Genghis Khan) and his successors. Because the land network proved inefficient for the amount of goods needing transport from one part of the empire to another, the Mongols expanded the Silk Route to ocean shipping and thus created the first Maritime Silk Route. The sea traffic initially expanded the land routes but soon strangled them. With the expansion of the Maritime Silk Route through the fourteenth century, the land connections reverted to local networks and lost their global importance

Ratu Mongol: kisah ketangguhan putri-putri Genghis Khan memimpin kekaisaran terbesar dunia

Buku ini merupakan sejarah yang berdasarkan riset yang luar biasa.i, Penulis mencatat bahwa sepak terjang para ratu Mongol telah menginspirasi seniman-seniman besar dunia, dari Chaucer dan Milton hingga Goethe dan Puccini. Kisah mereka pun terus hidup hingga saat ini. Dengan buku ini, Weatherford mengembalikan bab milik para ratu yang hilang ke dalam catatan sejarah