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Jack Weatherford, Jonathan Davis: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (AudiobookFormat, 2014, Brilliance Audio) 4 stars

The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback …

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3 stars

Lots of over-sensationalized stuff. And this moment... changed the world..... Genghis dies (spoiler alert) half-way through. A lot of it seems like a dramatic retelling of what seems like a single (unreliable) source. I know this is unfair to put in a review, but things I was interested in were replaced by things I wasn't interested in. So that really hurt my enjoyment in general.

Some things were pointed out that I really wasn't expecting. The diet differences between the Mongols and the conquered people and how it mattered was one such thing. Most of it was like trivia that I'll forget in 2 weeks.