The Mongols, among other raiding nomads, compared the agrarian population to ra’aya, “herds.”38 Both sought to dominate the trade that was within reach. Both were slaving and raiding states in which the major booty of war and the major
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This would imply a sort of gravitational model where peoples near alluviam go agrarian whilst peoples near agrarians go nomad raiding
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