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We build up whole cultural
patterns based on past "facts"
which are extremely selective.
When a new fact comes in that
does not fit the pattern, we
don't throw out the pattern.
We throw out the fact.

Robert Pirsig

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,
instead of theories to suit facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes

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Pax Mongolica

Wikipedia link here
Supposedly a period of peace after the initial Mongol empire building.

It was said that a virgin carrying a sack of gold could ride unharmed from one border of the Mongol empire to the other.

Gold is heavy, the Empire was huge

History does not record the fair maiden's name,
but one can guess why remained one