Anthony Sattin, "Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World" (Norton, 2022)
New Books in Early Modern History
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The Origins of Stereotypes of Nomadism
Most of human history, the relationship between settled and nomadic people was a very happy one. The suspicion comes about when there's an imbalance as we see in our own time. There were millions of Syrians fleeing the trouble in the Middle East at the time I started writing this. Egypt had been for a long time very insular and therefore cut off from developments elsewhere in the world. It was absolutely convinced of its own superiority as a culture,. which is why the decline had set in because everything needs to keep on moving and shifting and growing. Hixas brought two great inventions: horse with bridle - attached to chariot -- and composite bow that Egyptians used before they could make their own
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