fritz-iv
2mo ago
What (if anything) is to be made of the Comanche and the Mongols in this story?
The horse was of course not native to the New World, but the Comanche adopted it quite efficiently for combat in the brief time period (300 years?) between the horse's introduction and Westward expansion. Seems like they were quite masculine and strong do what they will the weak suffer what they must pilled. Although I don't know much beyond this, or how they interacted with neighboring farming people.
The Mongols have quite the parallel, sweeping off the steppe, into the east into a civilization of rice paddies and taxes. From the little I know, it's again a patriarchal clan with wife raiding. What's interesting with the Mongols is how we have recorded history of the warriors transitioning into statecraft beyond a helot/privileged-class structure. Another interesting parallel is the outsized genetic legacy, and meager artifacts or architecture left to posterity.
“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.” (apparently, Harry Truman)
Likewise, it's a beautiful white lie when the privileged get taught a hard lesson, and it's an absurd destructive falsehood when the lesson arrives on your doorstep.
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