Southern regions, closer to the border.
The most important thing was that they were fighting in there own land, also they where using gorilla warfare style.
The answer is Discourages
As hunters and gatherers before they discovered farming.
I believe the answer is: Ethnocentricity.
ethnocentricity refers to the act of seeing our own culture as inherently superior compared to another culture. This often make people seeing the norms or tradition that exist in other culture by using our own as a standard. The more their culture deviate from ours, the more inferior we think their culture to be.