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FTA: “William and his travelling companions set off on horseback on 16 September 1253 on a 9,000-kilometre (5,600 mi) journey to the court of the Great Khan at
by Someone 4y ago
FTA: “William and his travelling companions set off on horseback on 16 September 1253 on a 9,000-kilometre (5,600 mi) journey to the court of the Great Khan at Karakorum. Arriving in late December…”
That’s 9,000 km in about 100 days. Am I right in thinking that’s a quite an accomplishment? The Pony Express did about 300 km/day, but switched horses every 15-25 km.
- pavel_lishin 4y agoThat's wild. I did a little bit of research on how fast a large group of people can travel more or less on foot, maybe with wagons, and the number I got was about 20 miles a day. 56 miles a day is nearly three times that!
- trhway 4y agoI think that one of the reason for the huge Mongol Empire creation as well as fast partitioning was the short climate period when majority of those territories provided best conditions for horse travel - i.e. not total desert, not swamp/forest, and instead it were plains with climate being just right for the good grass and reasonable rivers.
- fishtockos 4y agoFrom the lower Volga to Karakorum is actually about 5600 km, not 5600 miles. (edit) Still pretty impressive, though, especially in winter