Reading a novel plays in the setting of MAGUS, on Ynev, in the South. Deep South.
The hero travels through the steppes south of Sempeyer towards the southernmost mountains (see map here: >>19931). He joins a caravan of merchants visiting the nomads roaming around, trading their valuable goods originating from far away lands for "horses and knickknacks". These friggin nomads outjew the fantasyjews! Not the merchants the ones selling glassbeads to the nomads for furs and whatnot, but the other way around! My brain just stops reading this book.
But also made me thinking how trade should be done on nomad lands. Well, "nomad" as I wrote elsewhere. And I don't want to theorize about how it was here on Earth, but in such fantasy setting, or how can happen on Ynev.