I pointed out that the lack of trees in Pent would make it hard for the Pentans to have wagons as Kevin suggested.
>Yes, but trees are also fairly scarce in Mongolia and the rest of central
>Asia. Not a lot of forests between between 30N and 50N, although there
>are increasing number north of that, as one approaches the Amur & Argun
>rivers and Lake Baikal. Even so, they used a lot of wagons. Presumably
>they took very good care of them in the middle of the steppes.
However there is no comparable tree line north of Pent as there was in the Central Asian Steppes (which is where the Mongols got their wood from AFAIK), there's only the Tundra. OTOH I have no intrinsic objection to Pentans having wagons so there may be some small forests within Pent. I suspect that if they existed they would lie at the northern lattitudes just before the Tundra proper begins and also in and around some hilly ranges. Since Pent is such a big place, there's ample room.
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