There is no real barrier between Europe proper and the steppes of Central Asia, the Asiatic geneflow that naturally transformed Central Asia from Iranid to Turanid should have also applied to Europe, transforming large parts of it into mestizo abomination zones. It is only thanks to the chance adoption of Islam in the 13th century under the Mongols, leading to the vilification and ostracism of the Tartars in European eyes, that allowed Europe to retain it's purity in the face of such mongrel hordes, and eventually cast them out in a form of racial jihad.
>>18438658Europe and Asia share a common tectonic plate (Eurasia), making the division a matter of geographical convention rather than tectonic separation.
>>18439157Honestly I understand why the separation came, eurasia is huge, and tribes there have always been separated by distance.It's why rome couldn't reach han for example.For like 99% of history, modern transportation didn't exist so it must have felt like two different worlds.
>>18439161>For like 99% of history, modern transportation didn't exist so it must have felt like two different worlds.What do you mean? Feet have existed since forever?
>>18439161Same with Africa - should be divided into distinct subcontinents imo.
>>18439199do you mean like north africa, sahara, horn of africa, subsaharan africa? that's one radical idea
>There is no real barrier between Europe proper and that your map shows flat areas not steppes, Mongols and other steppe peoples thrives on, well, the steppes, outside of this they struggled to find grazing for their horses.A mongol Tyumen of 10000 warriors would have upwards of 50000 horses, which all had to stay close together to resist enemy attacks, crammed into an area that would allow maybe a few 100 cattle to graze in peacetime, they'd basically eat everything then have to move on. Throw in forests and rivers creating chokepoints and terrain where cavalry lose much of their advantage and they are limited in what they can accomplish, the Mongols achieved their victories by knowing their limitations and picking their battles.This is why they raided rather than occupied Poland and Hungary and avoided stone fortifications. If they wanted to stay they would have to bring infantry from Ruthenia to occupy fortifications and if western Europeans ousted them the Mongols could only return during the campaign season. Perhaps they would again achieve stunning victories, but there would be no loot to be have this time, only knights they might capture for ransom and their expensive armor, but it would be mostly fanatical crusaders with crossbows which could inflict serious casualties even if they won.Knights were not so useless either, as the Mongols approached Vienna there was a skirmish where Austrian Knights did what they do best and rode out from their stone castle with fresh horses to rout a foraging party. In pitched battles Knights were prone to disaster, Agincourt was another one, but wars are not fought solely with pitched battles. Before the battle is joined they will prove each others' defenses, raid and skirmish, and very large battles with 10000+ on either side were quite rare events with years or decades between. War in general is expensive too and the Mongols were far from their homeland, far from their centers of power.
>>18439185>WalkingDude, even the tribes in prehistory that actually walked entire eurasia took generations.
>>18439157Strictly speaking, Europe is a peninsula
>>18439235You're an idiot. I am not talking about military history but 'peaceful' migration, the point being that the steppes naturally transition to European forest and plains, meaning that Asiatic nomads could dwell very close to Europeans.JESUS FUCK... WHY IS THIS BOARD SO DUMB!?
>>18438658It wasn't a racial jihad, it was just as much of a natural transformation, with the climate cyclically getting more and less dry.
>>18439241strictly speaking i can count multiple peninsulas in europe
>>18439157t. ivan from outside russia-oblast
