Pastoral peoples on the global stage (12)

The “revolution of domestication” began around 11,500 years ago. People living in environments where farming and agriculture was easier maintained and developed impressive and powerful civilizations with substantial populations. For those whos land was not on the agricultural margins, learned how to use their livestock to support their civilizations. Some of those animals also provided a new way of transportation possibilities. Pastorialism emerged only in the Afro- Eurasian world, because in the Americas there was an absence in large domesticated animals. Of all the pastoral peoples, the Mongols made the most stunning entry. It connected from the Pacific coast of Asia to Eastern Europe. The mongol moment represented an enormous cultural encounter between the nomadic pastorals and the settled civilization of Eurasia.