TRADITIONAL AND INNOVATIVE MECHANISMS OF GOVERNING IN NOMADIC SOCIETIES OF CENTRAL ASIA IN THE 6TH – 13TH CENTURIES. Part II

Abstract

Part II of the paper reveals the peculiarities of theCentral Asianomads’ governance system in the 6th – 13th centuries in relation to the nomadic communities’ complexity. The research compares the governance characteristics on the tribe level in nomadic chiefdoms and early nomads’ state formations during the period of their emergence. The paper demonstrates that the transformation of nomads’ governance system bases consisted not only in replacing one governance practice with another but in combining some more archaic and developed forms of political activity. The comparative and functional study showed that the traditional attitudes and acts related to the tribe governance experience remained significant and played the main role at times during the transition to more complicated organisation of political regimes in the Middle Ages nomads’ societites. The innovative tribal governance institutions in nomads’ imperial politities were not stable without a fiscal exploitation of the settled population, towns, trading and administrative apparatus hierarchy.

Keywords

• traditional tribal governance system, nomadic chiefdom, innovations in the nomadic empires governance