The Secret History Of The Mongol Queens - How The Daughters Of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire: Jack WeatherfordThe Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from "The Secret History of the Mongols, " leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: Let us reward our female offspring. Only this hint of a father's legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story. The queens of the Silk Route turned their father's conquests into the