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Dai Sechen’s dream was full of symbolism, especially as regards shading, since white was regarded as a lucky colour by the Mongols (Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 328).

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Togan, Flexibility pp. 121–125.

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L. V Clark, ‘The Theme of Revenge,’ pp. 33–57.

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SHC p. 18.

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Silvestre de Sacy, Chrestomathie arabe ii p. 162.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 22.

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Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 344.

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RT i p.

133.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 22.

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May, Mongol Conquests p. 266.

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SHC p. 22; Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan pp. 20, 24.

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Rachewiltz, Commentary pp. 346–347.

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RT i p. 138.

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Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 185–187.

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Roux, La mort pp. 92–96.

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SHC pp. 23–24.

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SHC p. 25; SHR pp. 23–24.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan pp. 25–26.

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RT i pp. 93–94; SHC pp. 25–26.

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SHC pp. 27–28; SHO pp. 70–71.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 26.

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SHC p. 29; SHO p. 73.

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SHO pp. 73–74; SHR pp. 26–27.

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SHO p. 75; SHW p. 252.

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SHC pp. 30–31.

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SHO pp. 75–76. For the subsequent career of Bo’orchu, who seems to have died in 1227, roughly the same time as Genghis himself, see Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp.

342–360.

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Riasanovsky, Fundamental Principles p. 90.

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Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 411–414; Vladimirtsov, Le regime social pp. 58–59.

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RT i pp. 80–89.

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Krader, Social Organization pp. 39, 89 is the source for this. In the kind of language beloved of academic anthropologists he tells us that Temujin’s marriage was an example of matrilateral cross-cousin marriage (ibid, p.

344).

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Rachewiltz, Commentary pp. 391–392.

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RT i p. 93.

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SHO pp. 79–81; SHR pp. 31–32; SHW p. 256.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 34.

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JB i pp. 187–188; Boyle, Successors p. 31.

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SHC pp. 34–38.

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Gumilev, Imaginary Kingdom p. 143.