Nomads ... Even attacking the cities, they encouraged the townspeople to come up with new ways of protection, new trade options, new roads that circumvented the lands of nomadic states. No, the nomads were not the enzymes of history ... They helped the settled neighbors to develop. Has the history of relations between nomadic and settled peoples always been a history of war and violence? And have nomads always been aggressors, who saw the goal of their existence in the destruction of cities? You will learn about this, as well as the Silk Road in this issue right now!