Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change – The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecesso…
Nomads As Agents of Cultural ChangeThe Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors\nAuthor(s): Reuvan Amitai, Michal Biran\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824839789, 978-0824839789\nSynopsis\nSince the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbours often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent dangerbarbarians, in facttheir impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social, demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian civilisations, especially.
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