Stupid me for being afraid of being too ASBa giant mobile city ruled by a intelligent alligator
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Stupid me for being afraid of being too ASBa giant mobile city ruled by a intelligent alligator
Stupid me for being afraid of being too ASB![]()
It may be too obvious an answer, but why can't they trade for raw metals with settled people?
Also, metalworking isn't necessary for "industry", you could have industrialized manufacturing that simply makes timber products.
dried cattle dung.
I was forgetting it.
it burn easily somewhere is nicknamed "steppe coal" (or it was camel dung being nicknamed "desert coal"?).
yes and nocould a nomadic culture develop industry while at the same time remaining nomadic?
let's start simple: could a forge be put on a yurt?
now let's scale it up: what about a furnace?
cultural aspect: would chain work mechanisms function in a less irregimented society such a nomadic one?
supply problem: you cannot travel loading coal and iron mines on your cart. how to work around that? (please do not answer "by settling").
Show me how to make a boiler out of wood.Also, metalworking isn't necessary for "industry", you could have industrialized manufacturing that simply makes timber products.
And this would last, at best, a few generations. When nomads rule sedentary peoples, one of two things eventually happens: either they abandon nomadism or they get overthrown. As the famous aphorism goes, you may conquer an empire on horseback, but in order to rule it you need to go by foot.I agree with others in saying that the only real hope for this idea is to have the nomads somehow overrunning a civilisation that is going through the early stages of industrialization (this will not be easy). They then set up a two tier system of government where the nomads become a ruling warrior class who are constantly on the move while the industrial cities supply them with manufactured goods in return for their safety.