In The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire, Weatherford set forth the argument that it was the women-wives and daughters-that preserved Genghis Khan’s empire, not his “four self-indulgent sons”. He credits them with universal paper money, primary school education and a unified calendar. They sought not merely to conquer the world but to institute a global order based on free trade, a single international law, and a universal alphabet. The Mongols displayed a devoutly and persistently internationalist zeal in their political, economic, and intellectual endeavors.
In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, he argued that the Mongols were the precursors of modern economic globalization:
Jack Weatherford has a clutch of informed, and impassioned, books on the Mongols to his credit.
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