## Metadata - Author: [[Sunil Amrith]] - Full Title: The Burning Earth - Category: #books ## Highlights - The Mongols’ power was rooted, quite literally, in steppe grass. Each of the estimated 102,000 men in the Mongol army had at least five horses. Perhaps half of all of the horses on Earth in the thirteenth century were in the Mongol Empire - China’s population reached around 115 million people by the start of the thirteenth century: a third of all the people alive in the world. Such stunning growth was possible because of the spread of rice.5