Your conclusions broadly agree with the mechanism described by Ibn Khaldun of one tribe adding another’s asabiyyah to their own via conquest. From his Muqaddimah:
Once asabiyah has established superiority over the people who share in that particular asabiyah, it will, by its very nature, seek superiority over people of other asabiyah unrelated to the first. If the one asabiyah is the equal of the other or is able to stave off its challenge, the competing people are even with and equal to each other. Each asabiyah maintains its own domain and people, as is the case with tribes and nations all over the Earth. However, if the one asabiyah overpowers the other and makes it subservient to itself, the two asabiyah enter into close contact, and the defeated asabiyah gives added power to the victorious one, which, as a result, sets it goal of domination and superiority higher than at first.
A singular example of the tribe-absorbs-another-tribe element is provided by Genghis Khan, who pioneered the practice of killing a tribe’s leaders and then adopting the rest of them wholesale into Mongol households. He did this on a limited scale with Merkid, Tatar and Tayichiud prisoners, and then with the Jurkin tribe entire. For this I recommend Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
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Your conclusions broadly agree with the mechanism described by Ibn Khaldun of one tribe adding another’s asabiyyah to their own via conquest. From his Muqaddimah:
Tanner Greer has a good summary of the concept over at the Scholar’s Stage.
A singular example of the tribe-absorbs-another-tribe element is provided by Genghis Khan, who pioneered the practice of killing a tribe’s leaders and then adopting the rest of them wholesale into Mongol households. He did this on a limited scale with Merkid, Tatar and Tayichiud prisoners, and then with the Jurkin tribe entire. For this I recommend Jack Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.