Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women Before 1400

Sorkhakhtani Administers a Mongol Empire (1x31)

Air date: Jan 01, 2019

Explore the life of a woman some modern historians argue is one of the most influential women in history. From a marriage alliance with the Mongols at the tender age of 13, Sorkhakhtani would grow to have a prodigious influence on this important Asian empire, exercising a degree of power unavailable to many other women of the time.