A family history of the world
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Family History - The First World History That Really Includes Women
This is, I think, the first world history that is really completely includes women all the way through. Queen mothers, sisters of kings, and throughout this book, you see an amazing phenomenon. You see women who are bawlts or stolen as slaves, not just in Africa, but really in places like the Ottoman Empire,. In Mongolia, in the Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, and in China, women, started enslaved persons who actually become the rulers of these great empires themselves.
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