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The grassland highway where horse, archer, and empire learned to outrun the world.
sizeEurasian belt stretches 5,000 miles, Hungary to Manchuria
genghisMongol cavalry built history's largest land empire here
no treesToo dry for forest, too wet for desert
black soilChernozem here is the planet's richest farmland
word rootFrom Russian 'step', meaning flat treeless plain