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Judging by the amount of lands of that Mongols conquered, lack of cars wouldn't have stopped them from conquering Europe. Mongol empire at its peak spanned over 24 million square kilometres of land while To put that into perspective, the Roman Empire at its peak only spanned over 5 million square kilometres of land

Pretty sure he was making a joke about the use of the term driving.

You're trying to be clever but the word "drive" has more than one meaning and predates automobiles.

>propel or carry along by force in a specified direction

They'd probably tried to go 100% solar by 2050 (BC)

Um everyone was Solar? They feed their animals solar raised fuel, AKA hay and oats.

Oil is solar in the same sense

The sun only provided the fuel's origin the chemical alteration of this material is caused by pressure, heat and millions of years. Though fossil fuel is scientifically photosynthesis based the alteration is what makes it a fossil fuel. Hench the name fossil.

https://www.geochemsoc.org/files/6214/1261/1770/SP-2_271-284...

You get that I was joking, right?

(If for no other reason than the wild anachronism; Khan was born in 1162).