steppe

Some of it was through steppe with rough roads/tracks/drivable surfaces that are not on the maps.

The article even mentions recent heavy rainfall in the steppe which could have washed radioactive particles out of the upper atmosphere.

The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

Combination of very sparsely populated steppe and an oil gusher or two.

Imagine you disconnected a few cars, they stand on one-track rails in the middle of steppe with no roads or buildings to be seen anywhere.

Or court officels from china going into the steppe.

> The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.

I spent a summer there, mostly in the Urals, but a bit East of those mountains as well, sometimes out in open steppe areas.

The population density in steppe was so low, we could just drive until we'd run out of gas and water, and not meet anybody.

Their conquests are more notable, but I don't think their numbers, or culture, were anything special compared to the other constantly-churning ethnic steppe groups.

A steppe mongol would train hourse of shooting the bow and learing when it was safe to cross a frozen river, but he did not sit around in the style of greeks and figure out the universe.

The US has a lot of sparsely inhabited land but it doesn't have the same huge swathes of uncared for steppe that Russia/Kazakhstan have where they can just dump spent rocket stages everywhere with nary a care.

It's not really any more likely to succeed than Russia's attempts at a "Silicon Steppe".

I'd also recommend reading "Warriors of the Steppe" for an account of the rise and fall of the mongol empire.

In fact, it's likely that China would have undergone the Industrial Revolution around 1200 had it not been disadvantageously exposed to the "Steppe Highway"-- the reach extending from Hungary to Manchuria that made it relatively easy for nomads on horseback to terrorize agricultural or urban people.