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To: Ilaine who wrote (1990)1/9/2003 5:08:59 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 15987
 
One problem is that too many tribes were nomadic, and considered a broad swathe of territory as "their land", even though they could not hold it, other tribes often disputed it, and they could not put it to productive use. In a way, those tribes were like aristocratic drones: as the land hungry peasants of Europe clambered for property to homestead, they disdained their pleas, preferring to sit on "their land", and when these poor peasants tried to put the land to productive use, they preferred to make war upon them, rather than seek a more peaceable a solution. There was reason for resentment on both sides......
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