Weatherford Essays

The Moon Cannot Be Stolen The zen short, the moon cannot be stolen, is about a Zen master named Ryokan who gives a thief his clothes as a gift, only wishing he could give him the moon. The author inflicts confusion on the reader so they will analyze the text and find a more pertinent meaning. They make you look deeper and find the meaning through connotation, irony, and repetition. Connotation is a powerful tool used throughout the moon cannot be stolen. The feelings and emotions attached

World, Jack Weatherford, is first and foremost a professor of anthropology. The study of humans, their behavior, and their societies is a practice that is without social bias. This makes an anthological view of history to be one that is closer to true events than most—as there isn’t a set social outlook already determined when looking at history. In Weatherford’s case he has a fondness for indigenous cultures and societies as his previous works have always focused on these topics. Weatherford gives us

Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world is a book written by Jack Weatherford discussing the long lasting impact of Genghis khan life, legacy, and his superb strategic and militarized mind. This book not only discusses Genghis khan himself, it also goes in depth about the “empire he left with such a firm foundation that it continued growing for another 150 years” (Weatherford 2004, xx). The Mongols were still able to leaving a remarkable impact on the world even though “The Mongols made no

In the book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford describes Genghis Khans two legacies as a military conquer and intelligent administrator. Weatherford refers to Khan, as Temuhin symbolizing one of the most successful leaders in history itself. By Weatherford using this name let alone Khans childhood and his deficiency shows at a young age the leadership he had. Genghis Khan’s legacy as intelligent administer shaped the modern world politically, cultural and economically

In 2003, Jack Weatherford, professor of anthropology, published Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Genghis Khan began as a boy whose father died and tribe abandoned him. However, he began to conquer and unite lands from all over. He fostered trade, communication between cultures, and growing civilizations. He was possibly the most forward thinking ruler in history. He exempted the poor from taxes, established free education, and created religious freedom in his empire. He and the

Givers” “Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World,” by Jack Weatherford, is a book about the American Indians and their contributions to the rest of the world. The book goes into great detail about the changes that occurred from when settlers first arrived to the Americas and began interactions with the Indians to the modern century of when the book was published, which was 1988. Weatherford did an outstanding job as putting into perspective how much the world has learned and

Christopher Columbus story. Author Jack Weatherford explains his view on Columbus Day and what we should be celebrating. In his source “Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus” he states “he [Columbus] was no more the discoverer of America than Pocahontas was the discoverer of Great Britain” Weatherford does not believe that Columbus had anything to do with that discovery of the “New World” nor does he need to be honored and celebrated for it. Weatherford acknowledges that Native Americans survived

Khan (Weatherford: 41). However, the combined power of Jamukha and Ong Khan proved no match against Temujin’s ever-growing military force. With Temujin’s victory, he became Genghis Khan and abolished the age-old steppe kinship-based social structure and emphasized the value of an individual’s loyalty and ability (Weatherford: 64). Weatherford writes, “Temujin Khan exercised a decisive ability to assess a man’s talent and assign him to precisely the right task based on his ability” (Weatherford: 40)

made Genghis Khan an effective ruler? It was his ruthlessness and ability to spread fear among other villages. “Genghis Khan instilled fear in others. They were afraid of his speed and swiftness of how he conquered and took over civilizations.” (Weatherford, Jack, Genghis Khan, p. 108) Aside from that, he used his great military organizational skills to transform the Mongol society. Instead of asking his men to die for him he used tactics to

bring publicity to the wonders of the New World, he was also the first to integrate cruelty towards one specific race. In Jack Weatherford's Examining the Reputation of Christopher Columbus, Weatherford dutifully describes how “Columbus tore children from their parents, husbands from their wives” (Weatherford

freedom of religion well before that idea caught on elsewhere.” (History.com Staff. "Genghis Khan." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009). “Genghis Khan made it clear that his Great Law applied as strictly to the rulers as to everyone else.” (Weatherford, Jack, Genghis Khan, p. 70). No matter what your status you were not above the

are Jack Weatherford and Mike Edwards. In Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, he believes that although the Mongols have a reputation for barbarity, that Genghis Khan was actually an enlightened and compassionate ruler in many ways. In contrast to Weatherford’s views, in Edward’s Genghis Khan, he believes that even though Khan may have had an enlightened side to him, that the barbarity of his conquests out show any good he may have done. Even though Weatherford makes a compelling

warfare was not a sporting contest or a mere match between rivals; it was a total commitment of one people against another. Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy” (Weatherford Modern World pg 8). There are many reasons why the Mongol empire was so strong. But one thing that they did that no other empire has done would be what they do with their enemies that they had captured. The Mongols had put fear in their enemies’

by connecting new areas of the world. Weatherford provides an example of cultural and commercial unity in the following quote: "By responding to the needs of a universal market, the Mongol workshops in China eventually were producing not merely traditional Chinese crafts... but adding entirely new items for specialized markets (226)..." The trading route connections developed in the Pax Mongolica also spread agriculture to different parts of the

In the thirteenth century, overlook left a single short sentence ‘Let us reward our female offspring when tearing away the censored pages from The Secret History of the Mongols. Jack Weatherford carefully explored the hint of what had been removed through his next analysis The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. His previous book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World was deep insight into the man who conquered the half of the world and commanded an empire that China had dreamed of and

believes the accomplishments of the Mongol women were erased from a biography by Genghis Khan. Khan wrote the biography for the Mongol royal family. However, Weatherford used a variety of sources to discover the roles and the fates of the female descendants of Khan. Mongol Queens tell us the roles of the women in the Mongol Empire. Weatherford first tells us about Alaqai, daughter of Khan, who governed the Onggud people after they were conquered by her father. Alaqai had to win the loyalty of the

within the black community, considered “this generation’s war,” was the modern day enslavement and massacre that replicated the slave trade during the 1800s that also claimed the lives of thousands of black bodies, Ronald Jeffrey Weatherford and Carole Boston Weatherford discuss in Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door: Aids and the African-American Church (7). Because these communities were denied inclusion within white dominated spaces of society, they heavily relied on their religious communities to

anything related to Islamism which later resulted in his determination to completely destroy the city of Baghdad and Islamic culture. Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Bibliography • Weatherford, Jack (2004). Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-609-80964-4. p. 69 • Weatherford, Jack (2004). Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-609-80964-4. p. 135 • Hildinger, Erik (1997). Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central

descriptions of Kublai Khan’s. court The Golden tree greatly impressed me. As with any book, the reader must look closely for potential bias. The author, Jack Weatherford is not an actual historian, instead an anthropologist. He received awards such as the polar star, a mongolian so it is possible the Mongolian government influenced his work. As Jack Weatherford, the author, is a non Mongolian he may have misunderstood some Mongolian cultural

Columbus Day is one of the most controversial holidays in America. Columbus Day is celebrated in many of the countries in the Americas for the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival to the New World on October 12, 1492. He originally set out for sail for India under Kind Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. He made a total of four voyages between 1492 and 1498 where he explored Caribbean islands and areas of Central and South America. There is no argument that his “discovery” was a turning