Original title: The secret history of the Mongol Queens
Author's name: Jack Weatherford
ISBN: 978-
Original language: English
Genre: historical narrative
Editorial: Crown Publisher
Years editions 2010
Year of Reading: 2010
Additional Information: 2016
I have taken the liberty of creating a trilogy, to make a dive in the unknown history of the Mongol Empire.
I recommend that you read first The Secret History of the Mongols, then the Secret History of the Mongol Queens and finally The Art of War of the Mongols: Genghis Khan and Mongol military system.
If you follow this chronology going to see how fascinating and unknown that was the Mongol Empire. I hope you like it.
Summary of the book:
In my opinion it is a great book I recommend reading as it allows us to see not only one side of Genghis Khan very unfamiliar, if not the role that the daughters and wives of Genghis played in the Mongol Empire.
In this book we see Genghis Khan, was almost the inventor of the modern era, it is more, there are countries today (which we believe are Westernized) that are more backward than the Mongol empire of the thirteenth century, which is really sad.
In this book we will see one of the most brilliant strategies in political alliances, which were his daughters, who became the spirals that helped lay Gengis and expand their empire.
But unfortunately also tells us the decay of this empire, one of the largest in history, the recipe is almost always the same for all empires. Inept, drunk and useless come to power and with them the end of the golden era.
But all hope for the Mongol empire is not lost, because grace Mandukhai Khatun who was regent until Dayan Khan was old to govern, these two characters succeed in restoring the glory of the empire Mongol and bring order to chaos.
The epilogue is great, please read it. What I liked most is the story of Christopher Columbus, as I did not know.
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