Well, here we are. The land is acrid and dry. It’s gravely unsuited to agriculture, and barely enough to sustain a population. Yet, from these harsh lands, for a period in time, birthed the most terrifying military might that ever stomped the earth. Ancient empires fell before the Mongol hordes, and to think that they had started from these unforgiving swathes of grassland.Inner Mongolia has modernised itself considerably since the days of Genghis...