There's always a habit of blaming outsiders for disease and you know cross-human history how often when the magic people were they often blamed is there an element of that oh they were always blamed. address one other very unhappy time in the book which is the Black Death. We'll come on to the moguls in a minute but another another story about the Scythians before we before we're done with them because the Scythian get bad press for killing the great Persian king Cyrus the great.
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Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people into the cities of Uruk, Babylon, Rome and Chang’an, most of humanity continued to live lightly on the move and outside the pages of history. Drawing on his new book Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World, travel writer and historian Anthony Sattin joins us to set out an alternative account of human history, told through its outsiders. Our host for today is Rosamund Urwin, media editor of The Sunday Times.
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