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Old 03-12-2008, 13:48 PM   #177 (permalink)
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Mongols only had true difficulty against the Asians in terms of wars.Mongols were powerful and effective but mainly only against european metal hunks and scarf wearing middle easterners.
They conquered the Song, Jin and Korea. They probably killed more people in the far East then in Europe during the invasion period.

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Mongolians when they were young practiced to shoot animals in the eyes from across large rivers. They have more horse riding, training then any other cavalry in the world and their arrows cut through thick metal armour like a chainsaw through cream
Pretty much the same as the Kipchaks or any other Turkic group, Khitans, Jurchens or other horse peoples. Which is why those people fit in so easily to the Mongol structure (which was a refining of the systems of organization of past steppe tribal confederations).

And their arrow shooting was hardly super human.
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