In this way, he helped to change the aspects and safety of his people far beyond his lifetime. With each chapter, the author brings us deeper into the life of a man who changed the world to save others from being abused as he was. Weatherford contends Gengis Khan May have changed the world, but did not let the world change him, returning to his roots for rest, reflection and recharging. Based upon the divergence of friendship and enmity, Khan developed what we now see as modern warfare techniques and the skelton of a government not see previously. Jack Weatherford has presented Khan as a unifier of the scattered Mongols as well as a shaper of his own future. This fascinating overview of the life and times of Gengis Khan is well worth the time to track down and read. It seemed highly unlikely that he would have ever had enough horses to create a Spirit Banner, much less that he would follow it all over the world.”
“Fate did not hand Chinnguis Khan his destiny. With appreciative descriptions of the sometimes tender tyrant, this chronicle supplies just enough personal and world history to satisfy any reader. By his telling, the great general was a secular but faithful Christian, a progressive free trader, a regretful failed parent and a loving if polygamous husband. On a smaller scale, Weatherford also devotes much attention to dismantling our notions of Genghis Khan as a brute. Without pausing for too many digressions, Weatherford's brisk description of the Mongol military campaign and its revolutionary aspects analyzes the rout of imperial China, a siege of Baghdad and the razing of numerous European castles. In just 25 years, in a manner that inspired the blitzkrieg, the Mongols conquered more lands and people than the Romans had in over 400 years. In researching this book, Weatherford (Savages and Civilization), a professor of anthropology at Macalaster College, traveled thousands of miles, many on horseback, tracing Genghis Khan's steps into places unseen by Westerners since the khan's death and employing what he calls an "archeology of movement." Weatherford knows the story of the medieval Mongol conquests is gripping enough not to need superfluous embellishments the personalities and the wars they waged provide plenty of color and suspense. Apart from its inapt title Genghis Khan dies rather early on in this account and many of the battles are led by his numerous offspring this book is a successful account of the century of turmoil brought to the world by a then little-known nation of itinerant hunters.
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