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[Tonkyhonk]

Of course, there are other groups, like the Mongols, that never transitioned from raiders. (There's reasons for that, but I don't want to write a whole treaties on it.)

thats how other countries around, especially communist USSR, saw them. many people of Mongolia worship Genghis Khan as the founding father of Mongolia and never as a raider. however agressive they were, they officially transitioned as well in their history. and that is how history works

[_Gunnar]

yeah i posted this weeks ago in the "main" thread on the newbie reservation but here you go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Mongolica