The one issue that every empire faced while trying to settle down in Central Asia, was the nomads. The nomads were people who moved around twice a year, north in the spring and south in the fall. When the empires would move around to find good pastures and water, they would run into several nomadic groups and conflicts would arise. These conflicts include battling it out and who ever lost either was killed or became slaves. This encouraged the empires and nomadic groups to pair up with each other, move farther away. Groups who won periodically, would have so many slaves that they could just devote themselves to fighting and gaining more land. When it comes to getting goods, the nomadic herders would trade their horses and furs for grain, woven