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...million men could be descendants of Genghis Khan. An Oxford University study suggests that 8% of men living within the once vast Mongol empire carry the Y-chromosome DNA characteristic of Khan's ruling house...
...taller than my thigh, the boy with coal-dark eyes swings himself easily onto my white horse. Feet dangling high above the stirrups, he gallops along the shore of a frozen lake, turns, rears and dismounts with a grace that brings to mind his distant ancestors--the Mongol warriors who swept across Asia...
...Stewart's mining of Mongol history is fascinating. Who knew, for example, that Khan's son supposedly considered massacring China's entire population? But the author's real strength is in sketching the characters he encounters: a Dickens-loving Russian pimp, a shy newlywed, a Mongolian librarian of Chekhovian futility. Far from the taciturn nomads one might expect, Mongolians are voluble talkers ravenous for news: Stewart disappoints his attentive hosts only when he fails to relay sufficiently lurid gossip...
...Time: Your understanding of the nomadic culture changed as your journey progressed. Stewart: I went with the traditional idea of nomads as a free-wheeling, liberating force. But in fact, they are extremely conservative. I brought a saddle of my own, which shocked people because this was not a Mongol saddle. This was not the way things were done in Mongolia. It's a very non-experimental society. Very little had changed in 750 years...
...because we could, I suppose,” said Walter C. Stanovsky ’06, who was studying for his Literature and Arts B-46, “Art in the Wake of The Mongol Conquest” final. “It was pretty fun, like a group bonding experience...