“Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America’s North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his expedition explored the coast of Canada, and like Cortez, he also wanted to venture inland in search of… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“By the time the settlers and pioneers of America reached the West Coast, they had gone through many dramatic landscapes, but nothing quite prepared… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.” — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The Mongol army had accomplished in a mere two years what the European Crusaders from the West and the Seljuk Turks from the East… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The English explorer Martin Frobisher developed a novel technique for using the services of the Inuit as pilots for his ship during his first… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The Mongols who inherited Genghis Khan’s empire exercised a determined drive to move products and commodities around and to combine them in ways that… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“When he demanded gold, the Indians brought him copper, and when he demanded silver, they brought him silvery mica, which they mined in the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.” — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the factories of… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
