A Short History of Nomads

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The roots of the word ‘Nomad’ dates back to an extremely early Indo-European word, ‘nomos’. After towns and cities are built and more people settle, ‘Nomad’ comes to describe people who live without walls and beyond boundaries. Now, the word is used by settled people - for some with a sense of romantic nostalgia, and for others, it carries an implicit judgement that such people are wanderers of no fixed abode. Yet, often overlooked, Nomads have fostered and refreshed civilisation throughout our history.

Anthony Sattin is a journalist, broadcaster and author. Anthony joins Dan to trace the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies, from the Neolithic revolution to the 21st century via the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and the great nomadic empires of the Arabs and Mongols.

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0:00.0	Everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History, the world's best podcast official. Super exciting
0:06.7	to announce that. Great news. Thank you to everybody.
0:09.4	Today, we got Anthony Sat down. We're talking about nomads, we're talking about nomadic
0:12.5	people. People who don't bring food to them, but go to the food. Make sense. Lot less
0:16.9	tiring, apparently. So Anthony Sat in the film, this podcast, many times before, he's a journalist,
0:21.4	author, he's a friend of the pod. He's great to have him back talking about his new book,
0:26.7	his new project on nomads, nomadic people on whom the settled have depended for so much
0:33.1	of history. It's fast enough, challenging stuff folks, you're going to love it. If you
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1:10.4	Anthony Sat in.
1:16.6	Anthony, thanks so much for coming back on the podcast. Thank you very much for having
1:20.3	me back. What a joy. What is a nomad? How are we defining nomads these days? It changes
1:26.1	over time. No matter long, long time ago was somebody who had a herd and went looking
1:31.5	for pasture and everything in their lives was dictated by this need for grass or for some
1:37.6	sort of fodder for their animals. We live in an age of digital nomads and all sorts of
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