stackyFACTSExpanding an empire across massive distinct oceans requires an entirely massive naval fleet.
Expanding an empire across massive distinct oceans requires an entirely massive naval fleet. However, nomadic horsemen managed to entirely connect almost the entirety of the Asian landmass without ever heavily utilizing massive oceanic ships. By simply never running out of highly aggressive cavalrymen, they managed to heavily violently map out the single largest connected stretch of entirely dry land controlled by one single faction.
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