Essay On Mongol Queens
The Secret of the Mongol Queens is the story of the women in power during the Mongol reign and it reveals the struggle of hanging on to their patrimony and to preserve the greatness of their nation. He starts the story with the six daughters of Genghis Khan and traces the royal families for 250 years until the empire tore itself apart. Genghis Khan marries Borte, the brother of Borte thinks he marries her for the wealth that comes with her, but the marriage is for the trust between the kingdoms and for the actual romantic side of marriage. Genghis Khan gets divorced from his older wife but is stays married to his younger wife. The men and women had the same rights so much as women could change husbands because of her sex drive, but it was also
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One woman stood up and went to avenge these wrongs done to the queens, who have turned their father’s nation into the largest international empire. She also wanted to salvage what was left of the Mongol Empire and in turn restore order to the empire. She got her bow and arrow and Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers into many battles which resulted in many victories. When she was in her thirties she married a 17-year-old prince and had eight kids with him while she kept fighting the Ming Dynasty and Muslim warlords. Since she was so surprisingly victorious on the battlefield it sent the Chinese into a panic and they spent a high amount of money to hurry up the wall building. She went into battle while she was pregnant to reassemble the Mongol Nation for her future kids and the ones already born to rule after she dies. Oghul Ghamish and Sorkhokhanti were fighting for control and Sorkhokhanti won. There was a purge which lasted until 1252 when she died in March and the power then shifted. Marco Polo went on his conquest and he got caught up in the propaganda. Khutulun, the Mongol princess who was in charge at the time, was a very good fighter and said she would not marry a man who could not beat her. Khutulun found a man to marry but died in 1306. When she died, the role women played decreased and became
One woman stood up and went to avenge these wrongs done to the queens, who have turned their father’s nation into the largest international empire. She also wanted to salvage what was left of the Mongol Empire and in turn restore order to the empire. She got her bow and arrow and Queen Mandhuhai led her soldiers into many battles which resulted in many victories. When she was in her thirties she married a 17-year-old prince and had eight kids with him while she kept fighting the Ming Dynasty and Muslim warlords. Since she was so surprisingly victorious on the battlefield it sent the Chinese into a panic and they spent a high amount of money to hurry up the wall building. She went into battle while she was pregnant to reassemble the Mongol Nation for her future kids and the ones already born to rule after she dies. Oghul Ghamish and Sorkhokhanti were fighting for control and Sorkhokhanti won. There was a purge which lasted until 1252 when she died in March and the power then shifted. Marco Polo went on his conquest and he got caught up in the propaganda. Khutulun, the Mongol princess who was in charge at the time, was a very good fighter and said she would not marry a man who could not beat her. Khutulun found a man to marry but died in 1306. When she died, the role women played decreased and became