Sort of. But the attitude was less "wow, look what they have? so lucky. I want it." and more "we have the right to take what we want from the soft settled folk since might makes right".Groups like the Mongols and Turks long resisted becoming sedentary folk themselves even when most of the subjects were since they saw it as a kind of weak "unfree" existence. However the natural forces eventually transformed most of the groups (look at how the southern Europeans transformed the Germans and Scandinavians, the people of Syria and the Levant transformed the Arabs and Turks, and the folk of Mesopotamia transformed the Parthians).