Arabian traders had access to advanced technology, information, and stories because they moved between Egypt, India, Byzantium, Persia, and other trade worlds.
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Nomads
Arabian traders had access to advanced technology, information, and stories because they moved between Egypt, India, Byzantium, Persia, and other trade worlds.
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"how was it possible for the Arabs to defeat both the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanian Persian Empire? And the answer is this. What..."
"...had to first send their goods to Arabia. And then the nomads would transport the goods into Egypt. Okay? So what does it mean..."
"...to do is to sail into Muscat. And then have Arabian nomads carry the goods all the way to Mecca and then go into..."
"...lived in the hills they farmed you also had nomadic pastoralists nomads because this place was a center of trade so you had bandits..."
"...they are the mercenaries they should please the hill people the nomads they're forced to come together as a new alliance to fend off..."
"...have the Egyptian priests, you have the missionaries, you have the nomads, you have the hill people, okay? So Egyptian priests get explained away..."
"But like what you just mentioned, that Nomad has two meanings to either..."
"No, no, no, the Nomad does not have two meanings. It has one, it has different names, but one meaning, okay? This is really..."
"So Plato defines Nomad as knowledge, and Dantène defines Nomad as love."
"...and Dante are debating is how do you return to the Nomad, okay? So for Plato, it's the pursuit of knowledge that allows you..."
"...So Plato and Danteng just gives us the way to approach Nomad, right?"
"...-Europeans, the Yamnaya, who lived in the steppes. These are pastoral nomads. And as a result, they brought their culture to them. So the..."
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