<u>Opinion on the statement "Antagonism arose among the conquered nomadic tribes of the Xiongnu":</u>
The Xiongnu made civil war in monastic nomadic existence in the second and third decades B.C.E. when they created a much more unified and patriarchal democratic system than for the monastic societies of the old days.
By the 1960s, it became evident that, amid irregular antagonism, farm workers and portable agriculturalists were involved in a mutually beneficial relationship. Moreover, groups keep switching between nomadism and sedentism, based in part on the strength of the centralized authority.
In the 1970s, Rowton used the terminology "attached nomadism" and "genetically determined chiefdom" to show the type of social structure distinctive of old Mari, "which reflects a curious mixture of town-state, clan, and nomadism”.
In the coming years, archaeologists, astrologists, and scholars extended this deeper understanding of nomadic revivals to physically active society to the study of the origins of advanced monastic nomadism.
