Sometimes a banana is just a banana. Nomads did make these lands uninhabitable due to danger of death, not unlike malaria; and these lands did undergo the rele

Sometimes a banana is just a banana. Nomads did make these lands uninhabitable due to danger of death, not unlike malaria; and these lands did undergo the relevant nomad displacement/swamp draining before they could be settled by peasants. The comparison is apt, and if you have moral issues with the metaphor, compare that to moral issues with raiding and slavery.