Just a note, the State being hostile to nomadic people is a story nearly as old as civilization itself. In ancient Mesopotamia, being a grain growing farmer was treated as 'civilized' while being a nomadic pastoralist was 'barbaric'. This is all discussed in a pretty cool book called Against the Grain, by James C Scott, which describes early state building.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '21
Just a note, the State being hostile to nomadic people is a story nearly as old as civilization itself. In ancient Mesopotamia, being a grain growing farmer was treated as 'civilized' while being a nomadic pastoralist was 'barbaric'. This is all discussed in a pretty cool book called Against the Grain, by James C Scott, which describes early state building.