Jack Weatherford

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3,108 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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That was the age limit, the cutoff was six years old at that time.

And so you had some as three years old racing out there.

It's absolutely incredible.

And of course, at that age, they can't even have a saddle because they can't even be used.

So they're just, all they're doing is staying on the horse.

The horse has been trained to do what it has to do and they just stay on it.

But by staying on it, they learn the horse, they become one.

And not just one horse with one rider, but one rider with several horses.

Usually five is the number that you should have for you when you go off to battle.

And this ability that is shoot.

You have to defend your animals.

There are wolves around, foxes, other things.

In some areas, there were even tigers and other animals that would come in.

And you had to be able to shoot to defend it against other people who might be raiding you.

So they became excellent archers.

They had composite bows that were very powerful, much more powerful than those of most sedentary people.

Now, I say all that because it's very important, but those are all sort of nomadic traits of the great steppe anyway.

I mean, in an earlier version, you had the Huns who came out of Mongolia, and Hun is just the Mongolian word for human.

Hun, to this day, that's what they say for a human being.

So they came out of Mongolia, and all the early Turkic groups came out of Mongolia, and they had similar skills.

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