They also mastered the arts of:
archery from
horseback,
mobile homes (
yurts),
vassal states,
conscription from colonies,
fermentation of
mare's
milk (
kumiss), inspiring
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and keeping a light
lunchbox on the road (strips of
raw meat beneath the
saddle cooked by the
friction of
travel, washed down with some of their
horse's
blood.)
Many of these contributions were critical to their success. Others were less so.