Historical evolutionary question. Were people in the past who lived in the desert forced to live on looting and warfare for a living -
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There must have been people to steal from, so no. Only bandits steal.
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no, they lived off their livestock. usually animals that are well suited for hot and arid climates, like camels and some species of goat.
They would mostly supplement their lifestyle by being traders, but those were only those societies with domesticated camels. A lot of the desert adjacent nomads would invade and conquer settled civilizations, but that was usually during times of civilizational weakness (ex. the Amorites, Arabs)
Short answer: no.
Not quite as short answer: raiding is a matter of convenience. Like the other Kiwis said, you can either put in the effort to make land arable, raise livestock, or produce something worth trading- or you can take what you want from someone else. Societies that thrived on raiding did so because it was easier than sustaining their society the hard way.
Not quite as short answer: raiding is a matter of convenience. Like the other Kiwis said, you can either put in the effort to make land arable, raise livestock, or produce something worth trading- or you can take what you want from someone else. Societies that thrived on raiding did so because it was easier than sustaining their society the hard way.
Does Billy the Kid count?
if shit hit the fan you could expect them to raid their neighbors instead of starving to death
but yeah... going around killing people in the middle of a bumfuck desert was expensive and dangerous in those days. People mostly just minded their own business and herded camels.
but yeah... going around killing people in the middle of a bumfuck desert was expensive and dangerous in those days. People mostly just minded their own business and herded camels.
>Like raiding, looting, and pillaging has ever been unique to one particular area humans have lived
Why do you ask the stupidest questions?
Why do you ask the stupidest questions?
Nah, they did it because it was fun.
And in the Bible it said, those who live in these lands in the desert will be in a state of war for all time
