pastoralists

They were pastoralists that had access to metal work and other manufacturers goods from their sedentary neighbors.

Lots of their remnants survive ranging from the Bedouin to Namibian pastoralists to the jungle dwellers of Papua New Guinea.

Good for the urban poor; terrible for the rural farmers and pastoralists who are usually the primary victims of a famine.

He argues that this harks back to an era when the Israelites were simple pastoralists.

Most people anywhere (except the pastoralists ofc) were agricultural labourers before modern farming kicked in.

The agriculture equivalent of pastoralists also used to use slash and burn techniques to grow crops destroying and depleting massive troves of land.

Indian subcontinent, Central/Southern Africa, and Europe are all relatively recent hybrid populations of farmers/pastoralists running into hunter-gatherers; Europe and India are all three!

We might today think of them as violent primitive pastoralists who didn't have the talk therapy like the tiktok teens from US of A.

It doesn’t go much into the religious differences between pastoralists and agriculturalists, though, and I’d be interested to read more on that.

Whether pastoralists are a 'civilization' (or even more fraught, 'civilized') seems like a completely arbitrary distinction to try to make, especially on the basis of something like 'cities'.

While historically the life of the peasantry (and pastoralists and hunter-gatherers) was stereotypically 'nasty, brutish, and short,' war activities were often carefully circumscribed and oriented around set piece battles.

These are the kids who have pastoralists families that probably move constantly, or stay in areas where its too hot they only attend classes for 4 hrs a day.

There are a lot of comments today about, "wow, the ancients were more advanced than I thought," but this book will have you understand that steppe pastoralists were much more advanced than you thought.

> "It's always struck me as puzzling, why people in suits and ties in capital cities seem to think that the pastoralists don't understand very well how to manage these lands," Barrett said.

"By establishing strong "fair" law they stopped long lasted inner-conflicts and "made life better"." They established fair law for 80 years at most, and at the price of killing off a substantial percentage of the peasantry (who the Mongols, as pastoralists, viewed individually as less valuable than a horse) of conquered regions.