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It is the case for most of the settled people and civilizations. Just because a few traders, monguls and sea peoples exist doesn't mean most people don't live a
by graphe 4y ago
It is the case for most of the settled people and civilizations. Just because a few traders, monguls and sea peoples exist doesn't mean most people don't live and die within a few miles of their birthplaces. This is even true today.
A few north Korean traders does not make north Korean people an international trading culture.
- tomrod 4y ago> international trading culture. It kind of does, just that the people themselves aren't terribly mobile. Trade is goods and capital, not people.
- graphe 4y agoIf the hangul emperor married a perisan princess and got Persian goods, it doesn't change the status or the lives of average people. On the Indian subcontinent traders had participation from all walks of life so I'd call it way more culturally international. I'd argue royalty getting preferential treatment isn't culturally relevant for a people.
- tomrod 4y agoThose would probably be thought of as gifts, rather than trade. We see even in neolithic times that people ranged far with trade goods and community, such as sites like Göbekli Tepe.
- Fezzik 4y agoTo bolster this point: even today less than half the world population has flown on an airplane.
- wizofaus 4y agoAssuming than implies "somewhere between 45-50%", that's higher than I would have thought. But a much higher percentage would have traveled 100s if not 1000kms over land surely.
- tomcam 4y agoThey’re the smart ones
- inglor_cz 4y agoThe vast majority didn't have a choice, sir. Ever been to a really poor country? Even Moldova will do, you don't have to go to Niger. But people from poor countries actually do travel a lot, as gastarbeiters, to send remittance back to their families. They do so using buses, though. Lots and lots of buses.
- tomcam 4y agoJoke, sir