Talk:Horse archer civilizations

I added some info about the diet. I have no references, I got this info from my History teacher. Sad but true. If you think its wrong, please discuss before removing it but don't make a big deal out of it cos I don't see anyone contributing here much at all. Tourskin 01:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

diet[edit]

Quite a naive description. Sorry for the criticism. Gantuya eng 15:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure about the medieval Mongols, but by the 20th century the Mongols generally avoided eating horse and camel meat as they respect these animals. Horse is the friend of the man, they say. They eat horse meat rarely. It is said that the Genghis khan's warriors ate dried cheese and dried meat. This is the Kazakhs who widely use horse meat for food. They prepare from it delicacies such as 'kazy'. Gantuya eng 15:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

I suggest merging/deleting; this page, sorry, contains no worthwhile information, and horse archers certainly had culture but civilization wasn't one of their main characteristics. Richard Keatinge 09:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support the merge, but the argument goes the other way round: Civilisations and cultures weren't defined by horse archers. Those were just an element that was particularly noticeable to their enemies. Other than that, I agree that there is no worthwile information to be found here. The essence of those cultures is caputured in Eurasian nomads. The Category:Horse archer civilizations should share the same fate, as it contains just a random subset of Category:Eurasian nomads. --Latebird (talk) 00:53, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]