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Huns Civil Tier 7

Livestock Rustling

"This land and all its gifts are ours by right of conquest."

'Nomad' peoples followed the seasons with their herds, rather than having a settled agricultural lifestyle. The word itself is a Greek term and, as might be expected of the civilised, settled Greeks, they did not approve of barbarous nomads in the slightest. Nomads, on the other hand, may not have had permanent settlements, but their lives were as full and rich as settled farmer or city dwellers and probably healthier too, as they didn’t live in squalor. Nomadism is an extremely effective way of living off areas with scarce natural resources, such as the steppes. With their herds of domesticated animals nomadic tribesmen travel from camp to camp following the seasons and the grazing they need to maintain. As such, they rely on sheep and goats to provide meat, milk, hides and wool as the basis of their entire way of life. As grazing is exhausted, the herds can be moved on and the land left to recover until the following year. Despite lacking the supposed benefits of a settled community, the ancient nomads could nevertheless prosper. With fearsome warriors among their numbers, they were not above 'foraging' by raiding nearby settlements and farms! This was also an extremely effective and ruthless way of raising troops. The easiest way of harvesting scarce resources is, of course, to take them from someone else. The tribe who could not protect their own livestock, property and kin soon ceased to exist. This also encouraged the worst feature of nomad life for neighbouring, settled peoples: nomads will raid and steal from weak, sedentary folk because they are just another resource to be exploited.

Effects

Food: +3 from reserves (all forces)
Wealth: +3% from agricultural and animal husbandry buildings (faction_to_force_own_unseen)

Requires
Requires Technologies	Invasive Pastoralism

Enables
Enables Technologies	Advanced Agriculture
Enables Buildings	Goat Herd Sheep Pens

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