“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group… — Jack Weatherford Accomplishment 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… — Jack Weatherford American revolution 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… — Jack Weatherford Military general 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… — Jack Weatherford Gold and silver 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… — Jack Weatherford Books 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… — Jack Weatherford Poetry 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… — Jack Weatherford Distribution 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… — Jack Weatherford Christian church 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… — Jack Weatherford Two years 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… — 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… — Jack Weatherford Motivation 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… — Jack Weatherford Fairy tale 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… — Jack Weatherford Books 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… — Jack Weatherford Industrial revolution Copy Share Image
“By contrast, the subsequent waves of Puritans in their search for profits quickly uprooted all natives and sold many of them into… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“One of the first to reevaluate Genghis Khan was an unlikely candidate: peace advocate Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence.” — Jack Weatherford Freedom Copy Share Image
“This appeared clearly in one of the earliest burial mounds found on the Hopewell farm. There, archaeologists found a young man and… — Jack Weatherford Side by side Copy Share Image
“Genghis Khan recognized that warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of… — Jack Weatherford War Copy Share Image
“The word blizzard probably derives from an Indian word, although its origin is now lost. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the… — Jack Weatherford Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
“bear Indian names such as Yukon, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in the north, and Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Arizona in the south.… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and… — Jack Weatherford Enemy Copy Share Image
“Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America’s North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his… — Jack Weatherford Jacques Cartier Copy Share Image
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than… — Jack Weatherford Anger Copy Share Image
“The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning. They had a single goal in every campaign—total victory.… — Jack Weatherford Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
