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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford is described as “revisionist” history. How we spent multiple classroom discussions on the European Renaissance and the later Enlightenment and the subsequent benefits to civilization, but little to no time on the benefits from Asia, much less those originating from the Mongols. I think back to middle school and high school and how much of my history education was built around the Europeans like Alexander and Caesar. “Alexander and Caesar seem petty before him.” He made the most pithy statement possible when he said this about Genghis Khan: During this time, he sought to better understand his history and would write letters to his daughter. Jawaharlal Nehru, the father of Indian independence, was in prison under the British in the 1930s.