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Speaker 1: Welcome to steph you missed in history class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Holly Frying and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: today we're going to cover a lady with a story

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Speaker 1: that's a little bit cloudy, in part because it's many

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Speaker 1: hundreds of years old, and in part because accounts of

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Speaker 1: her life involve a combination of propaganda, and a pretty

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Speaker 1: significant account of her life is an outsider's interpretation of it.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about the Mongol warrior Princess Kuda Yune,

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Speaker 1: and we will mention there are many variations on ways

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Speaker 1: to say her name, and there's actually debate, I think,

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Speaker 1: even among scholars on which is the correct one. Additionally,

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Speaker 1: Tracy and I do not speak Mongolian, so the sort

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Speaker 1: of breathier uh sound of consonance is not what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go with because it would sound very silly and

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Speaker 1: probably at best patronizing for us to attempt it. Yeah. Yes,

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Speaker 1: As I similarly was listening to Mongolian speakers say the

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Speaker 1: names in this I quickly concluded that if you and

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Speaker 1: I attempted to mimic that it would be disruptive and

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Speaker 1: distracting and not respectful. Yeah. So for her name pronunciation,

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Speaker 1: we were going with Kuda Yune. If that's not the

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Speaker 1: way you like to hear it, said, We're sorry, but

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Speaker 1: that's the scoop. We did that after we reviewed a

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Speaker 1: number of different speakers saying it. Uh. Yeah, it's decisions

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Speaker 1: have to be made. We had a lengthy conversation about

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Speaker 1: how to say words this morning, Yes we did. Jengis

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Speaker 1: Khan's great great granddaughter was born in twelve sixty. That

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Speaker 1: was about fifty four years after the Mongol Empire was

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Speaker 1: founded in twelve or six, and she would ultimately become

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Speaker 1: a legendary figure in Mongol history. Could's father was Kai

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Speaker 1: Do Khan of Mongol Leah from twelve sixty to thirteen

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Speaker 1: o one, and Kaidu's leadership was in opposition to that

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Speaker 1: of Kublai Khan, who was the fifth emperor of the

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Speaker 1: Yuan dynasty, which I am also probably saying in the

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Speaker 1: most horrible way I mentionable. Uh. In twelve sixty, around

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Speaker 1: the same time that Kouda Yun was born, the Mongolian

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Speaker 1: Empire really had begun to seriously fracture in a civil war,

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Speaker 1: as different family lines tried to claim the title of

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Speaker 1: Great Khan, and as this fracturing continued, the kaid Kublai

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Speaker 1: War began in twelve sixty eight. Kaidu may have been

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Speaker 1: motivated more by his beliefs in the traditional Mongol lifestyle

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Speaker 1: than in a desire for land or power, finding the

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Speaker 1: increasingly sedentary, indulgent court life to be an affront to

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Speaker 1: the nomadic roots of the Mongols, and Kaidu spent the

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Speaker 1: rest of his life from twelve sixty nine uh fighting

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Speaker 1: Kubla Khan over control of the Mongol territories, and Kaidu's

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Speaker 1: daughter figured prominently in that effort. Kaid had first in

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Speaker 1: the province of Turkestan through military alliance after first claiming

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Speaker 1: it in twelve sixty three, and by the end of

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Speaker 1: that decade he was recognized as khan by a significant

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Speaker 1: number of Mongol chieftains, and it was through that support

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Speaker 1: that he was able to wage war on Kubla Khan.

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Speaker 1: As Kubla Khan's reign reached into the twelve seventies, Kaidi

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Speaker 1: and his supporters asserted more and more that they were

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Speaker 1: the true Mongols, and the land that they had occupied

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Speaker 1: started to be called Mangoulistan. During Jengis Khan's reign, he

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Speaker 1: had made a law that the title of khan being

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Speaker 1: branches of the royal lineage. So Kubla Khan's reign was

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Speaker 1: truly seen as illegitimate because of all this fracturing within

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Speaker 1: So Kaidu's daughter is given multiple different names in historical

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Speaker 1: accounts of her life, but the most common is Kuda Yune,

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Speaker 1: which you will sometimes see spelled with a kh at

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Speaker 1: the writing of Marco Polo. So keep in mind that

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Speaker 1: her story, at least from the Western perspective, has been

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Speaker 1: viewed largely through the eyes as I said at the

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Speaker 1: top of the episode of an Outsider, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about that a little bit more Towards the

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Speaker 1: end of the episode. The Venetian Explorer wrote of her

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Speaker 1: quote now you must know that King Kaid had a

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Speaker 1: daughter whose name was iDRAC, which in the Tartar is

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Speaker 1: as much to say the bright moon. This damsel was

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Speaker 1: have to wonder how much she would enjoy being called

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Speaker 1: In terms of physical appearance, Marco Polo described her as

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Speaker 1: as Polo's description suggests, powerful and athletic. She was a

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Speaker 1: horsewoman and archer, a wrestler, and a military warrior. She

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Speaker 1: of their competitive activities and the Mongolian approach to wrestling

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Speaker 1: class or size, so anyone could wrestle anyone. Additionally, the

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Speaker 1: And Kodyune was really good at wrestling, even though she

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Speaker 1: was oftentimes wrestling with men much larger than she was.

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Speaker 1: While she's the most famous for her wrestling prowess, you

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Speaker 1: could also make the case that what really sets cut

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Speaker 1: apart as a unique figure in Mongolian history as the

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Speaker 1: that was because she was a champion athletically, so she

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Speaker 1: her father's army, which was approximately forty men, were pretty

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Speaker 1: also given her what historian Jack Weatherford refers to as

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Speaker 1: and justice. With wrestling, she excelled in battle, and her methodology,

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Speaker 1: opponent force. She would seize one of their men. This

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Speaker 1: And then she would take that man, her prey, back

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Speaker 1: how their various military opponents viewed this, like how they

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Speaker 1: Kubla Khan and his dynasty sent army after army of

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Speaker 1: kud You and her father defeated every such attempt. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Coodyn's requirements for any suitor

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Speaker 1: So the big thing about Coodian story that people often

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Speaker 1: fixate on is her unwillingness to marry unless a man

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Speaker 1: so many men took a cha lenge many men When

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Speaker 1: she got to keep all the horses. She allegedly accumulated

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Speaker 1: She may have never even considered letting him win. Yeah, again,

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Speaker 1: This bout lasted a long time with no clear dominator

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