[Rq-rules] Re: Nomads & Barbarians

[Ludowick at aol.com]

Styopa wrote:
 
> Me too, but then I wondered where AmerInds fit into that.  I'd  always felt
> that the tribes of Prax had been fairly closely based on  Native American
> Plains tribes - ala the Lakota, Kiowa, and Apache who  (in general terms)
> herded nothing in the agricultural sense of  'domestication' except perhaps
> horses.

I'd give them the Nomad skill set from RQ, even though they are  technically
still hunter/gatherers.  They could be described as proto-nomads. I  read
an article in an old Scientific American issue, about the origins of  herding 
in
the Middle East, that showed three-walled revetments that hunters  chased
herding animals into in order to capture them.  The article speculated  that
true herding began when the people decided not to kill all the animals  they
had trapped.
 
 
Bill Molendyk wrote:
 
> Even thier legends changed so that theh horse
> was 'always'  there.

Heroquesting!
 
 
Paul Cardwell wrote:
 
> Where would you put
> Scythians?  They wandered three  seasons a year, but
> lived the winter in log houses; smithed metal  (exquite
> gold work); had wheeled wagons much like 19th century
>  Roma [Gypsy] caravans; had no written language; had
> total sexual  equality in rights and occupations; were
> a military culture who for  payment in food would
> guarantee than treaty agricultural cultures  wouldn't
> be bothered by anyone; and formed the police force for
>  Periclean Athens.
 
They would be classed as a sophisticated nomad culture, in  contact
with civilized (and other) cultures, with all the resulting benefits  and
problems.
 
 
Michael (who prefers to use "Hunter/Gatherer" as the background
designation rather than "Primitive" -- how PC is that?)
 



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