Nomads basically made huge swaths of Eurasian land uninhabitable to peasant communities because your settlement will be raided until it ceases to exist.
In this fashion they were not unlike malaria and tsetse fly.
Eventually, settled societies concentrated sufficient amount of military and industrial power in one hands that nomads could no longer compete and fell apart, and these steppes were finally populated by villages and towns.
Some of the smarter nomad communities figured out how to avoid that fate and settled down by themself.
In this fashion they were not unlike malaria and tsetse fly.
Eventually, settled societies concentrated sufficient amount of military and industrial power in one hands that nomads could no longer compete and fell apart, and these steppes were finally populated by villages and towns.
Some of the smarter nomad communities figured out how to avoid that fate and settled down by themself.