People always remember the invasions *from* the Steppe but tend to overlook the frequent invasions *OF* the Steppehttps://twitter.com/christopherburd/status/875369484105560064 …
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Replying to @380kmh
That's because there wasn't much on the Steppe for settled people to conquer/plunder, invasions of the steppe were preventative/retaliatory.
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Replying to @BitingGadfly
There wasn't much on the European side of the Caspian Sea, but on the Asian side? Plenty! Tarim Basin, Bactria, Sogdiana, etc....
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Replying to @380kmh
None of those are in the Eurasian Steppe though, they were settled areas frequently conquered by nomads. They were urban from the start.
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Replying to @BitingGadfly
All of those are in the Eurasian Steppe, they were indeed urban from the start, but they were the urban side of the same nomadic people
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Replying to @380kmh @BitingGadfly
The steppe peoples showed a pattern of herding/urban civilization, unlike the farming/urban civilization that prevailed in Rome, China, etc
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Replying to @380kmh
Fundamentally different relationship between urban and rural communities imo. In settled world, there was free movement between the two
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Replying to @BitingGadfly @380kmh
In the Steppe, there were stratified racial/cultural divisions. A rich mongol did not conventionally retire to the city
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Replying to @BitingGadfly
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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Replying to @380kmh
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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