Some time before 1162 a Mongol girl named Hoelun was kidnapped and taken as a bride. A short time later she gave birth to a future emperor. Although the details of her story are shrouded in mystery, the tales that are told of her reveal a wealth of information about steppe culture and hint at the motivations of her son as he rewrote the very fabric of that society.
Podcaster: Samantha
Further Reading
Urgunge Onon, trans., The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan, Routledge, 2001. Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Three Rivers Press, 2004. Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com) Leave a Reply. |