Pax Mongolica: Genghis Khan & Kublai Khan
Conflicted: A History Podcast
Mongols and Horses
The horse was everything in mongol society. It was the focal point around which their entire culture livelihood and basic survival revolved. Children were nursed in the saddle. They were taught to ride at age four, and they were experts by the age of eight. All the mongols were taught to hunt as small children, and that required mastery of the bow and arrow. After a lifetime of killing, jengis khan decided he was just getting started.
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