And people thought The Conqueror with John Wayne was bad
"We will have the high ground," you said. "They will have to come to us," you said.
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And are they not doing so? An emissary with a white flag.
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Well, somehow, I do not feel they've come to surrender. Not with Genghis Khan holding the high ground, with our troops outnumbered.
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Are you suggesting that we surrender, then? I'm suggesting nothing. I'm only regretting the fact that I allowed myself
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to be dragged into this foolish and obviously risky adventure. To conquer, one has to take risks.
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At my age, I do not need to take risks. If we... If I survive this day, it will have taught me a lesson,
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that a man can be too clever. Your words mean more than they say.
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I had hoped to see Mongol kill Mongol, and so wipe themselves out
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and rid Khwarezm from all danger. Instead of which?
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I find myself on an uncomfortable horse in a drafty place and in a very dangerous situation.
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Well, perhaps this emissary brings good news.
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I bear greetings from the Genghis Khan to the Lord Jamuga. Greetings?
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And I thank you deeply for observing my flag of truce. The Lord Genghis Khan would wish to talk with the Lord Jamuga.
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Talk? What would we have to talk about? I'm only the humble emissary sent to arrange a meeting.
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There will be no meeting. No talk. Does the Lord Jamuga fear the spoken word?
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Tell this jackal you obey, my talking is done with a lance, or a sword.
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I'll repeat. Does the Lord Jamuga fear the spoken word?
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And these spoken words are to take place in the center of his camp?
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The Genghis Khan will ride forward with an escort of six,
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then finally alone. The same privilege is yours.
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Can he be trusted? The word of the Lord Genghis Khan can always be trusted.
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I trust him enough to remain here as hostage until you return.
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Then let it be so.
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It is only fitting that you have come back to your own land to die.
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But it is not fitting that a Mongol should deliver the death blow.
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You still sing the same song, Temujin. Many voices carry it now.
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Not the Merkits, outcast!
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I asked for this meeting in the hope that Mongol would not shed Mongol blood.
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Also, that you might still join with me to spread the name of the Mongol nation. The Merkits are warriors. Not a group of women to become part of a herd.
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We say and do as we want. And we take what we need. From anybody!
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I promise you this, Jamuga. The Merkits will ride as part of the Mongol nation,
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or their land will be razed to the ground. Razed so that not even a lame horse would stumble walking across it.
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I must talk with the Shah. Counsel is always worthwhile.
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We will send you our answer with Kam Ling.
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...and the men grow impatient, my lord. Better that than the spilling of Mongol blood.
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Not one of our horses will put one foot forward until I have Jamuga's answer. My lord! Look!
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Kam Ling.
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Take your posts.
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Withdraw! Withdraw!
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Withdraw!
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Retreat! Get them back! Get them back! I have no desire for slaughter. Retreat!
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Merkits!
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My lord, Jamuga!
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Take the left flank! With me!
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Subodai!
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One of you! Any one of you!
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And you first, outcast! Sengal! Stay where you are.
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Enough, Jamuga. Let there be peace. With you? Never! And there will be no chang this time either, jackal.
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If you have the courage to stand up alone to me, Jamuga, the man who slaughtered your tribe,
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the father of your first son! Is this the man you would follow?
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Is this the leader who would unite the nation of the Mongols?
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You have passed your own sentence.
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A Mongol duel? And when you are dead, Jamuga,
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your men will ride with mine.
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Untie any prisoners.
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If any of the Merkit tribe would leave us,
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let them go now.
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I have lived to see it, that the tribes come together as one people.
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But it is my sons who will make our nation great.
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Show my people their leaders.
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And until they are old enough to lead,
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it is my wife and her two brothers who shall speak for them,
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shall guide them to walk straight.
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Bortei, whom I have always loved,
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turn me towards the wind. I want that the gods should see me in the face.
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So many tears, but not one tear from you.
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There will be many years for weeping. I want you to see me as you have always.
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Always your hand to help me. As you said,
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it's always the first thing you'll hold out to another.
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The first. And strangely, at this time,
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that it should also be the...
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And so it was that Temujin, the Genghis Khan, was dead,
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but not the tide he set in motion. His dream conquered even after death.
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His sons rolled westward into the Hungarian plains, burned a path to the borders ofEgypt.
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One grandson founded the Mughal dynasty oflndia, while another was the great Kublai Khan, Emperor of China.
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And when the conquest was finished, half the population of the world was contained in the Mongol Empire.
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The empire born in the imagination of the prince of conquerors,
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Genghis Khan.
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