Originally posted by christhecontractor
Your community point actually proves the need for settled communities - what are the benefits from a nomad travelling with other nomads if not for security?
Nomads live an existence where the daily task is to find sufficient food to feed the people and livestock to keep alive.
There is not point in having artists, creators, thinkers within a nomadic society as you are too busy trying to take care of the daily necessities to dream or explore.
It is only when the daily toil of finding food is replaced by a predictable(ish) settled existence that people have spare time to start to explore their creative sides, pass on learned knowledge (other than by a oral tradition) to the next generation, and begin to enquire about the world they live in.
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