steppe

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I'll disagree on the importance - the Mongols could have swept west from Hungary and probably defeated just about any European army they'd encountered, but effective conquest would not have followed as every local princeling would still have a castle to fall back to and the Mongol army would have to fall back to the steppe were they could keep their horses fed.

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  1. noun A vast semiarid grass-covered plain, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

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  • I'll disagree on the importance - the Mongols could have swept west from Hungary and probably defeated just about any European army they'd encountered, but effective conquest would not have followed as every local princeling would still have a castle to fall back to and the Mongol army would have to fall back to the steppe were they could keep their horses fed. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • Well, would you ever have thought, sir, that the man who guided you to a lodging in the steppe was the great Tzar himself?" —  The Daughter of the Commandant
  • You go on and on, God forgive us; you look ahead and the steppe is always lying stretched out the same as it was--you can't see the end of it! —  The Bishop and Other Stories
  • The sleigh drive across the steppe was to be accomplished in ten hours The snow had begun to fall as they clattered across the floating bridge of Tver. —  The Sowers
  • Would you have thought that the man who led you to a shelter on the steppe was the great Czar himself?" —  Marie; a story of Russian love
 

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  1. German, from Russian step'.

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  1. = F. D. G. Danish steppe = Swedish stepp, from Russian stepĭ, a waste, heath, steppe.
 

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