A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words. — 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
