As the Rabbi's pupil said to Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, "He's right and he's right? They can't both be right!" To which Tevye replied, "You know, you are also right."
this really puts into perspective how ridiculously big the mongol empire was. I mean everyone knows it's big but then you think about it going from eastern Poland to the Korean Peninsula and it's just... w o w.
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