People always remember the invasions *from* the Steppe but tend to overlook the frequent invasions *OF* the Steppehttps://twitter.com/christopherburd/status/875369484105560064 …
There were very stratified racial and cultural divisions in the settled world too, and ppl tend to retire to the country, not the city
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You should def check out Beckwith's "Empires of the Silk Road" on these topics if you haven't yet
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I'll take a look, but I'm suspicious of most recent scholarship tbh. They Tend to have agendas (right or left) that they twist the facts to
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The fault of the thesis system I think
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I think there's movement both ways, but the point is that mongols would almost never move to the cities except as conquerors.
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The Mongols were hardly the only people on the steppe!
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No, but a Manchu/Magyar/early Kazakh/Hun/ wouldn't either. Similarities existed in all Steppe cultures. Same can be seen with Bedouins
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Only in respect to serfdom as I understand it. The cities of china were teeming with failed farmers. No one looked askance at a Roman villa
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