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> [“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of the Mongols.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/geoffrey-chaucer-the-first-author-in-the-english-language-devoted-the/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

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## More by Jack Weatherford

> [“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/in-american-terms-the-accomplishment-of-genghis-khan-might-be/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“Wyoming got an Algonquian name from Pennsylvania meaning “large prairie,” but the adoption came only after a long fight. Decades before the settling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/wyoming-got-an-algonquian-name-from-pennsylvania-meaning-large/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“By the time the settlers and pioneers of America reached the West Coast, they had gone through many dramatic landscapes, but nothing quite prepared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/by-the-time-the-settlers-and-pioneers-of-america-reached-the-west/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/discovery-of-gold-and-silver-in-america-the-extirpation-enslavement/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-poorest-mongol-soldier-ate-mostly-protein-thereby-giving-him/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/geoffrey-chaucer-the-first-author-in-the-english-language-devoted-the/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“officers composed their orders in rhyme, using a standardized system known to every soldier. The Mongol warriors used a set of fixed melodies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/officers-composed-their-orders-in-rhyme-using-a-standardized-system/)

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> [The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-great-struggle-of-history-has-been-for-the-control-over-money-it/)

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> [“The Mongols offered no counterpart to the common public entertainment of burning people alive that occurred so frequently in western Europe wherever the Christian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-mongols-offered-no-counterpart-to-the-common-public-entertainment/)

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> [“The Mongol army had accomplished in a mere two years what the European Crusaders from the West and the Seljuk Turks from the East…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-mongol-army-had-accomplished-in-a-mere-two-years-what-the/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“The English explorer Martin Frobisher developed a novel technique for using the services of the Inuit as pilots for his ship during his first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-english-explorer-martin-frobisher-developed-a-novel-technique-for/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-mongols-who-inherited-genghis-khan-s-empire-exercised-a/)

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> [“When he demanded gold, the Indians brought him copper, and when he demanded silver, they brought him silvery mica, which they mined in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/when-he-demanded-gold-the-indians-brought-him-copper-and-when-he/)

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> [“The great actors of history cannot be neatly tucked between the covers of a book and filed away like so many pressed botanical specimens.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-great-actors-of-history-cannot-be-neatly-tucked-between-the/)

[Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/)

> [“The industrial revolution did not begin in villages such as Kahl, in the workshops of skilled urban craftsmen, or even in the factories of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-industrial-revolution-did-not-begin-in-villages-such-as-kahl-in/)

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