Jack Weatherford speaks about Genghis Khan at Embry-Riddle Honors Series
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2013
- Jack Weatherford, Macalester College Anthropology professor emeritus and author of several notable books, reminds us that Genghis Khan was the greatest conqueror in world history.
Weatherford spoke at Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach campus February 4, 2013 as part of the Honors Program Distinguished Speaker Series.
To learn more about Embry-Riddle visit www.erau.edu
I read Jack's book a few years ago and thought it was one of the best things I'd ever read, I emailed Jack and he replied to thank me and say that my email arrived at the right time as he was struggling to finish the follow on book about the Mongol Queens and emails like mine really helped. What a gentleman!
“I am not going to dwell on” or even mention the infanticide, the fratricide, the genocide, the boiling, alive, the rape, the slavery, the use of innocent farmers as meat shields for arrows. A tiny bit of empathy and perspective would be appreciated vs. overly simplistic idealization.
After hearing him, I have so much respect for this men.
Man
As a Mongolian I really gratefull Jack Weatherford.It is time to world have to see Genghis Khan is other side brighter side.
Thank you professor Jack Weatherford! I have enjoyed every second of your lecture. Made me more proud of being Mongolian man. Thank you again.
this was so beautiful. Genghis Khan is the greatest man ever to walk the earth.
Alejandro I guess, you are right.
Blessings upon you both! 😙😀💝
Thank you so much Mr. Jack Weatherford, you wrote wonderful book about the great king Genghis Khan. Most Mongols appreciated your book. Also thanks for this video. Have a good one!
I never watched this long lecture or talk . It was so fast i didn't even notice already over 1 hour past. Not many people or researchers talked about him as person as individual. You Sir indeed good orator.
His mom and his wife were his most trusted advisors. They helped him built his empire.
Great lecture!! I like it a lot
Thank you
Such a fascinating history and people. Such a passionate and sensible presentation. What a man.
OMG this man is fair & brilliant! The world needs to hear the truth. Great blessings upon you Jack! 😙😀💝💝
We respect you sir. Thank you for all the things that you have done for us.
I really enjoyed the lecture.. Also I read the book Secret History of Mongol Queens written by You..
Your lecture was very simple and easy to understand.. Thank you professor.
As an alunmi of ERU I was proud to have Dr. Weatherford speak about Mongolia. His knowlege and love for Mongolia is awesome.
A fascinating discussion.
Hearing more I find myself respecting the Khan more.
I remember years ago that I was interested in the reality of history, weirdly enough based on playing Age of Empires 2 as a kid, but I wanted to know who these people were.
But all I found of the great kahn was a barbaric warlord who would slaughter entire cities as routine who led a nomadic army of horse-based savages.
For a while I never questioned it. When I entered High School, specifically when I was 16 I started to question things around me. I think it started through discussions with my Japanese teacher about how different the cultural perspective could be.
I started questioning what I was being taught, especially on the topics of Religion, History and Society.
With that inkling of cultural perspective I eventually stumbled back on the topic of the Mongolian empire a year or two later, and looked for an answer to the question ‘What is Ghengis Kahn (I hadn’t found out the proper spelling at the time) to the people of Mongolia?’
And the answer I found was far different to what I had heard. All I heard from my own culture was atrocity and conquest.
Here I found him to be held as a great man, a leader, someone who forged an empire, a nation or a national identity that still remains nearly 1000 years later.
Certainly there were stories of his harsh laws, the ruthlessness of the Mongols and the fate of those who resisted or betrayed him, but I found them to be balanced by examples of leadership, principle and ingenuity.
Genghis Khan is not a Mongol. He is a representative of the Turkic peoples.
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I think you might have stumbled into the wrong comment section.
Check out Dan Carlins "Wrath of the Khans"
Thanks for the wealthy of history and creating Genghis Khan in a new light inside by brain. You are an articulate and inspiring speaker.
Not just loyalty, but also ability!
i am so proud of you for actually understanding our history rather than skimming over the top layer of the stereotypical image provided by the europeans.
He may know our history but his delivery is weak. Try Dan Carlin' s hardcore history wrath of the khans. Now this guy will get u hooked with his excellent knowledge, delivery, and his passion for th Mongol history.
So only Europeans don't truly understand your culture? Everyone else that's ever spoken about Mongol culture had the correct point of view as long as the weren't European. Sjw.... Suck it
Yeah...by Europeans only it is wrong. Chinese, Iranians, Russians... etc...by everybody.
@ what? Mongolia is a modern country with some of the best education levels and IQ/literacy levels.
@@NmberOneNetsFan Dan Carlin have podcast?
I really enjoyed this presentation.
What an enthusiastic and affectionate lecturer.
A passionate presentation like this really holds my attention!
Wow, I really want to know more about Mongolia after this video, great presentation
Interesting. I can apply Genghis Khan's tactics to my own battles and win. History is a great teacher.
Thank You sir. What a completely wonderful account of the great Khan.
Just wonderful. His passion,explanation and voice is just so simple and easy to understand what he says.
With great respect to the humble scientist with a noble, honest, frank view to the world!!!
When you have a loyal general like Subutai that could conduct campaigns autonomously helps tremendously! Ghenghis khan is one history's great geniuses. In his ability to judge the character of people regardless of pedigree. That said he was also absolutely brutal when needed.
Thank you very much for posting this video. I thoroughly enjoyed and completely loved Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Jack Weatherford is one of the great scholars of our time, particularly of the Mongolian empire!
May ur soul born in steppe next life i hope you well
We approve of this lecture.
Thank you Mr. Jack Weatherford.
Love his books, cool guy!
All Mongolian history is so interesting !
As european and always courious about Great Khan and history of mongol empire. this is one great video.
Finally some good information.
Thank u for loking in possitive way
I'm impressed by the closed captioning (cc)! Finds a new way to butcher Genghis Khans name every time! =D
With love and respect!
Why has some one like Netfix or literary agent not made a true to life film from the secret history about Genghis Khan? I have read lords of the bow by Conn Iggulden and I loved it. I feel that there is a great series waiting to be made
Great stuff!
Thank you.
Thank you❤️🙏
Great man !!!
Great man
Good Man this Jack is
Thanks from Kazakhs
Who'se crying at this point...😢😢😢😢
Great speech
nice....about loyalty....he was loyal but it was also political...genghis knew that if he executed betrayers..his own men would never think of betraying him
I just found out I've pronounced Temujin wrong all my life.
Never built a wall, a city, a town, a Palace, never entered a city and never saw the sea. That Is crazy
Didn't know about this until now., very interesting
THANKS FOR ALL
Ty
im a simple man... i see Genghis Khan, i click.
Great
Oh wow
I have studied Temujin for a number of years. Dr. Jack Weatherford really knows his Mongolian History. He is pro Genghis Khan. On the question of rape, I am sure the Mongol soldiers had a share in doing raping in the city they conquered. But I agree of the qualities he mentioned on Temujin. If Temujin followed the Chinese way on succession, (only the eldest son could inherit the Empire,) his Empire won't split into 4 parts, and subsequently, the Empire was overthrown. I agree that Temujin created his Empire from nothing. He had only very humble beginning.
Koreans fought and treaty was written. Mongol didn’t take Koryo/Korea. Very interesting war between Korea and Mongol, as Koreans were also bloodline of horsemen/nomadic. Mongol wrote in their history, Koreans were toughest to fight; this means a lot as Korean are next door neighbor taking the 1st blunt of the invasion with reinforcement not to far from Mongolia.
Today the world still not learn the lessons still no peace no justice.
bid tanid mash ih bayrladag shuu
gun man jack fair play
Starts at 4:00
Finally someone who speaks unbiasly
Cool!
Hi, where are you from? I am interesting, because i have seen you many times in coment videos of Mongol Empire.
@@centralasia6827 From Mongolia. I like history, and Jack's book was a really fun read.
@@ElBandito i am from Kyrgyzstan and i respect Mongolia.
More secrets will reveal soon!
The Kazakhs and the Mongols has VERY MANY SIMULARITY. both are 'nomads' both live in the most HARSH environment and survive it and both is the basically grow up on the horse back.... both are loyal to their group
The Kazakhs had a diet with made them for to live and been VERY ACTIVE in the 100 years of age and even over still riding the horse stable ....
There is a still dinosaur egg and bones are in GOBI DESERT!
i am watching this to learn to be like him. cas everything is "Control" .
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Some non racist hollywood director have to make one movie on gengis khan. if he had been born in usa or europe than i dont know how many movies would be their, but since he is asian and mongolian less developed country his legecy is knows by few.
Historical movie about him will take too much money and manpower, they need to shoot all over the world and create battle scenes to create decent Hollywood level movie, even Marco polo TV series closed down because they could not keep up with the expenses.
Why my history similar to the the one you talking sir.
plzz give me story of changez khan in english plzz plzz sir very fast only 5 min
I am sorry, I am not sure what you are asking for. This video was published in 2013, there will probably not be any updates to it.
If you have a professor that is using this in class, you will need to ask them directly. They probably will not see the comments here.
Fascinating. I too was wondering WHY he wanted to conquer beyond the boundaries of "Mongolia", and beyond the cities and empires who had oppressed his peoples. Way beyond. Why the whole world? Anyway...
It is probably not coincidence the nations of Eurasia that came to dominate the centuries of history that followed the high tide of the Mongol Empires were those nations furthest from them.
I would prefer to see a presentation about Chinggis Khaan from a Mongolian historian.
After watching the video the second time I have to say best ever presentation by Westerner. Maybe one day a movie made by Mongols with Mongol actors can b made. I think it is well to note that at that time many troops of the Khaan were Christians. Christianity was brought to Eastern Asia, including Mongolia, by missionaries from the Eastern Church out of Antioch. Some called them Nestorians. So the "horde" that invaded Europe was not made up of pagans but many Christians. Christianity eventually died out in Mongolia and the Rest of Asia and was replaced by Islam in the West and Buddhism in the East.
Could be interesting the presentation by Mongol historian, but it won’t be fluent as his English. So, that would make the whole thing not interesting.
@@harrymcnicholas9468 I heard from a priest that Mongolia has only 1,000 Roman Catholics in the whole country now. Can somebody confirm or deny this? Thanks. 💝
@35:00
MERITOCRACY
2 million people in a country larger than alaska. Alaska has only 700k people total lol
not jenga’s khan genghis khan чингис хаан
36.00 is the best secret
35.06 to 36.00
The one reason he did not build palaces and bend for all that is because HE WAS GOD's SWORD . THE LIVING GOD of JUSTICE SWORD . HIS LEADER and PROTECTOR were GOD and therefore it was his first prior the LOYALITY.
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Is it better than Dan Carlin hardcore podcast ????
dan carlin mentioned him on the wrath of the khans, which is how I found this video. It's more on the character of ghengis khan than history of mongols.
@@blockraven22 thanks bud
Sorkhogtani khatun heleed bainuu daa?
Paimon is number 4.
here after Elon musk 's recommendation..
The great Khan's initial motivation is very simple: revenge! He revenged/conquered against all tribes of the steppes, revenged the north kingdom of Jin for killing his ancestors, manipulating and killing tribes of the steppes, against Khwarazmia for killing the 500 mongol trading convoy. His descendants wanted to expand their territories because they wanted to prove themselves as new generations of conquerors. In my opinion, "secret history of Mongolia" has been the most accurate history book known to man because it was meant to be an accurate account of Temujin's life for his descendants to learn. Bible is about faith, the truth content is no comparison.
Nicely put. In the steppe Genghis Khan fought to create Law , He was an orphaned child who grew up in poverty seeing his father fight year in year out to prevent the extermination of their people but once he died his people whom his father had died for robbed them and left them to die. Genghis Khan fought to create Law and justice in the steppe so that no other child would have to endure such injustice and poverty. He then fought for the revenge of his people and diplomatic injustices. Khan's conquest into China and Persia was always a reaction not an action.
@Altai Khangai Why did the Genghis Khan attack China and Khwarazmia?
@@tolui1874 We can still learn so much from the Great Khan who allowed religious freedom and promoted people based on merit!
So what about the legendary rape and murder? The jury is still out 🙃
Where can I find historical works about the most magnificent empire the world has ever seen, the British Empire in the same vein as the works of this apologist of the mongol storm? Come on Weatherford, write a book about Clive the Great.
Alf Johns what historical works you want to see?
Bruh he cancelled
Wow this man is deluded. I agree with some facts, but the personality of the Khan that he claims makes the Khan sound like a Disney character. His ignorance of rape is ludicrous, and very irresponsible for someone who lectures history.
lol u mad?its in your name tho.hes far greater than you narrow minded people.thats for sure.
Everything he said is wasted on you. Pity... This lecture was about the principle and the lessons modern world could learn from "the simple man from the steppe" as the professor so delicately puts it. Rape is hideous, and killing is horrible. But what great leader didn't do it? What other great leader in history came from nothing to achieve great things?
bedante90
No you're mad... smh few months later
Maddie Townsend
I'm just disappointed at this man's perspective. It's really irresponsible to portray the Khan in this light. It's not very accurate as i would say. I'm not thinking of morals at all, i'm of facts.
+madcrazymonk So what credentials do you have? Please name your degrees? And since you do not agree with with Weatherford, can you tell us why his facts are wrong and why he is inaccurate? Surely you must be on a lecture circuit, after living in Mongolia, and studying the history of the country? What new facts have you come up with?
Genghis Khan and Mongolians hated cities, because cities were not like today's New York, London and Paris. Cities were not sufficiently regulated, there were no sewage system, so they were stinky from miles and miles away. People lived in cold rooms with full of insects and mouses. So, Mongolians preferred to live in steppes rather build and live in cities.
romanticized nonsense
parsing 'good' rape vs 'bad' rape
It's not nonsense, it's objective analysis of society
"It is very easy to inveigh against slavery and similar things in general terms, and to give vent to high moral indignation at such infamies. Unfortunately all that this conveys is only what everyone knows, namely, that these institutions of antiquity are no longer in accord with our present conditions and our sentiments, which these conditions determine. But it does not tell us one word as to how these institutions arose, why they existed, and what role they played in history. And when we examine these questions, we are compelled to say-however contradictory and heretical it may sound-that the introduction of slavery under the conditions prevailing at that time was a great step forward. For it is a fact that man sprang from the beasts, and had consequently to use barbaric and almost bestial means to extricate himself from barbarism. Where the ancient communities have continued to exist, they have for thousands of years formed the basis of the cruellest form of state, Oriental despotism, from India to Russia. It was only where these communities dissolved that the peoples made progress of themselves, and their next economic advance consisted in the increase and development of production by means of slave labour. It is clear that so long as human labour was still so little productive that it provided but a small surplus over and above the necessary means of subsistence, any increase of the productive forces, extension of trade, development of the state and of law, or foundation of art and science, was possible only by means of a greater division of labour. And the necessary basis for this was the great division of labour between the masses discharging simple manual labour and the few privileged persons directing labour, conducting trade and public affairs, and, at a later stage, occupying themselves with art and science. The simplest and most natural form of this division of labour was in fact slavery. In the historical conditions of the ancient world, and particularly of Greece, the advance to a society based on class antagonisms could be accomplished only in the form of slavery. This was an advance even for the slaves; the prisoners of war, from whom the mass of the slaves was recruited, now at least saved their lives, instead of being killed as they had been before, or even roasted, as at a still earlier period."
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1877/anti-duhring/ch16.htm
you see the justification of mongols of massacre of persian people attach dimension that iran even today did not reach the population of that time.the poet ruminator lived that time and his poetry express his sadness.talk next time talk more about this
Y guys shouldnt kill the messengers diplomacia
There was no map no road . From mangolia to Afghanistan on the way all mountain even today you can't find city with map . By the way . One horse need 2kg iron to become rider . Iron shoes . One army man need 5kg iron .sword . Protection make of iron . By this 1000 army need 1000*7=7000kg iron need . But they historical siad Genghis Khan has 120000 horse man . This all bullshit
this is all fiction.
How
@@Vastilious because when talking about events that happened a long time ago nothing can be as detail as it appears in any book, Even if one has been present in the same room one can not speak in such detail as it is presented here. one can talk in general terms otherwise its a story. no historical book or biography is factual.
Genghis Khan is not a Mongolian, but a Turk and a Muslim. On the coins minted by Genghis Khan, it is written "ilahe illallah Muhammadan Resulullah", meaning there is no god but Allah, Muhammad is his messenger. Unfortunately, since Muslims learned their history from the Jews, Jewish historians never told the truth.Genghis Khan was a great conqueror who conquered two-thirds of today's world. The purpose of Genghis Khan's conquests was to unite Muslims and another purpose was to save the Islamic world from sectarian wars.Genghis Khan forced all humanity to believe in one God.On the coins of Genghis Khan, he writes: There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is his messenger, the leader of Muslims, the great Hakan Cengizhan,Moreover, Turkish is spoken in Genghis Khan's palace, but all correspondence is in Arabic letters.
Great