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it really is incredible how much genghis was able to accomplish with just horses. it's kind of surprising that nobody before him thought to weaponize horses in that way. people have always been trying to put deadlier weapons on top of horses, but genghis was the first to ask "what if the horse was the weapon?"
He was far from the first. He was just good at organizing his horse-riding peoples into a military force.