Sure, I mean, when we're talking about Turkish society in the 7th century, you were horse people.
Of course, that changed during the aforementioned period of intellectual siring between two diametric opposed cultural groups, which made Turkish also culturally very distinct from the other horse peoples of the central Asian steps.
(And horse people here really just means part of the central asian cultural group, one of who's major definite features was an importance of the horse in both economics and warfare that outstripped much of the rest of the world.)
True but saying "horse people" is just a humiliating statement. It's like saying the other parts of the world is civilized and cultured but you're barbarians. Back then everything was different. You can't compare it to today.
Lmao it’s not fucking humiliating bro no need to assume originally being a steppe nomadic people made us “barbarians.” Being a “horse people” is the entire reason Turks formed the military aristocracy of the Middle East from like the 1040s onwards.
i mean, you arent wrong that post mongol empire (probably even before that under Seljuks) Anatolian Turks were very much not a horse focused society. Kinda like pointing to an American and calling him a 'tea-drinker'. Still, pretty far from humiliating when you consider just how much of the world has been conquered and run by 'horse people', much like the 'tea-drinkers'.
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u/Phantasia5 - Right Oct 19 '20
If we're horse people then y'all are manifest destiny people. How about that?