NOMADS AS AGENTS OF CULTURAL CHANGE

Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacen t sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent dangerbarbarians, in facttheir impact on sedentary cultures was far more compl ex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads wer e also facil...[Read more]