## Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World ### Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World  #### Metadata * Author: [[Jack Weatherford]] * Full Title: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World * Category: #books #### Highlights * Success in battle carried prestige for the victor based on the goods brought back and shared with family and friends; fighting did not revolve around the abstract prestige of honor on the battlefield. Victorious warriors showed pride in their kills and remembered them, but there was no ostentatious collecting of heads or scalps, nor making notches or other emblems to represent the number of men killed in battle. Only the goods mattered, not the kill. (Location 705) # Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jack Weatherford]] - Full Title: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Category: #books ## Highlights - Success in battle carried prestige for the victor based on the goods brought back and shared with family and friends; fighting did not revolve around the abstract prestige of honor on the battlefield. Victorious warriors showed pride in their kills and remembered them, but there was no ostentatious collecting of heads or scalps, nor making notches or other emblems to represent the number of men killed in battle. Only the goods mattered, not the kill. (Location 705)