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Alongside the stationary carbohydrate-rich (and thus protein-limited) cultures were the nomadic protein-rich cultures, far more limited in social scale, except when, as with Mongols, Arabs, etc. they conquered & led the social scaling institutions of stationary societies. /6
The frequency with which sparsely populated nomads conquered populous stationary societies seems paradoxical until we realize that nomads diets were much closer to our foraging forebears', giving more muscle & brain power, offsetting the poor scaling of roving societies. /7
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Stationary pastoralism https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/lactase-persistence-and-quasi.html … combines the social scalability of stationary ag with a diet much closer to the protein-rich diet of nomads & hunter-gatherers. The ag & industrial revolutions happened first in regions most advanced towards stationary pastoralism.
You don't need to reach for diet to explain it. War is a way of life for nomadic herdsmen.
War was also a way of life for stationary polise and empires. Everybody tried to feed their soldiers as well as they could, but some could feed them a much higher quality diet than others.
I mean in the sense that nomadic herdsmen were usually also cattle raiders. Whereas farmers did not habitually try to steal the grain of the farmers in the neighboring village.
They were roving bandits to be sure. But that's small scale war which isn't the best prep for the organized large-scale wars of stationary states. BTW fully roving banditry couldn't support cattle, only sheep, goats, & horses, all more secure from raiding than big slow beasts.
Great societies are born of hunger and wither with satiety
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I believe diet is a part, but the most important part is the Genetic Pool expansion... Nomads are mixed, not all cousins. Also they have a broader, sparser network. Take the Jews, for example... A people forced to be nomadic for centuries - a very genetically diverse people/net.
Also stationary agriculture is probably more sensitive to climate variations.
The Spartans had a meagre diet. My 2 cents would be that the fasted state would have led to greater IGF-1 and HGH concentrations in the Greeks than for the grain-fed Persians. Just speculating.
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