Maybe the classical era too, I don't know where the start year should be. It ends in the early modern period when bordering agriculturalists like the Russians start expanding.

In other places and times agriculturalists tend to displace nomads on arable land, probably because crop farming can support a lot more people (and therefore fighters) per area.

Any explanation needs to be valid across the whole period and rely on things the nomads had that the farmers didn't. Horse archery was not new by this period.

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I heard a good bit about defections from North Korea but today was the first time I read about people decring to North Korea. Here is an interesting read about the life of one of seven U.S. soldiers to defect after the Korean War. Jenkins deserted in 1965 by crossing the DMZ expecting to the fairly quickly handed over to the Soviets and then included in a prisoner exchange back to the US. Instead, the North Koreans kept him, tortured him, turned him into a movie star (playing evil Americans) and married him to an abducted Japanese nurse. In 2005, he left (or was allowed to leave) to Japan and lived there until his death in 2017.

The articles about the other defectors are also a decent read. I found the life of James Desnok particularly interesting who seems to have quickly become a convinced regime supporter (and whose two sons are serving in the North Korean army).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1443411

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This was interesting. Her real innovation was structuring the hospitals she managed hierarchically. She made the nurses fully subservient to the doctors, which was not the case before. This was maybe or maybe not good for medicine, but certainly good for the people at the tops of the hierarchies, who celebrated her. Other people who did more valuable work were ignored by the history-writers.

On this day on the 16th of June 1963 the spaceship Vostok-6 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, piloted by the first female cosmonaut in the world - Valentina Tereshkova.

The "Seagull" (that was the call sign invented by Sergei Korolev) began its journey to the stars with the phrase "Hey! Sky, take off your hat".

The legendary flight lasted just under three days, during which time the ship made 48 rotations around the Earth. On board, twenty-six year old Valentina kept an in-flight magazine and took photographs of the horizon - later they were used to detect aerosol layers in the atmosphere.

Valentina Tereshkova is still the only woman on our planet to have made a solo space flight. She proved that cosmonautics is not just a vocation for men.