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No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion. (europe.pub)
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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I always thought it was because the steppe ended in roughly where Hungary is today. Couldn't feed their horses or create a supply line deep into Europe proper. It was also too decentralized to just sack one or two cities and have the whole continent. Realistically, it was probably due to internal politics though. They couldn't manage an empire of that size without serious reform.