For many years the history of the Mongols has been cloudy, with translations of translations setting them up to be a brute society of savages, hellbent on conquering, but that is just not true. This week Leah brings in some of the biggest misconceptions about the Mongol Empire and Genghis Khan. She also brings her friend Sam Bass, a professor of Mongol and East Asian History at Simon Fraser University in Canada. (Hint: Strap in, because things are gonna get technical.)
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https://www.ancient.eu/Mongol_Warfare/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-mongols-made-world-tremble-38262?page=0%2C2
https://cooltrebuchets.weebly.com/trebuchets-vs-catapults.html
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-genghis-khan-asian-conqueror-on-womens-rights-2010mar07-story.html
https://thetyee.ca/Books/2010/07/26/GenghisFeminist/
https://www.theglobalist.com/the-women-who-ruled-the-mongol-empire/
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-genghis-khan
https://science.discoveryplace.org/blog/genghis-khan-the-man-the-myth-the-legend
http://brandonthegrey.blogspot.com/2016/07/mongol-misconceptions.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJZ9IuiuBg
https://www.amonbe.org/genghis-khans-mongol-women/
https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofmo0000atwo
https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=cedarbooks
https://archive.org/details/historyoftheworl011691mbp
https://archive.org/details/Dawson1966MissionToAsia/page/n37/mode/2up
https://books.google.ca/books?id=mORfDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://brill.com/view/journals/jesh/63/1-2/article-p1_1.xml
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40109471?seq=1
Tatiana Zerjal et. al. “The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols” American journal of human genetics, vol. 72 (3), 2003, pp. 717-21.
Choongwon Jeong et. al. “A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia’s Eastern Steppe” Cell, vol. 183 (4), 2020, pp. 890-904.
