The Assyrian kings, by calling on their agricultural peasantry, spring after spring, to resume the life of militant Nomads, not only exhausted the sources of their own wealth and stability, but bred deep discontent.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
South and west lay either settled districts of old civilization not disposed to fight, or ranging grounds of Nomads too widely scattered and too ill organized to threaten serious danger.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
"Let me, O chiefs of the Tuareg, tell of a once strong tribe of warriors and Nomads who lived in the far country in which I was born," Crawford said.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds