Examples of Nomad in the following topics:
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- The nomadic pastoralist Bedouin tribes inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam around 700 CE.
- One of the major cultures that dominated the Arabian Peninsula just before the rise of Islam was that of the nomadic Bedouin people.
- The Bedouin tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia were nomadic-pastoralists.
- Because of the harsh climate and the seasonal migrations required to obtain resources, the Bedouin nomadic tribes generally raised sheep, goats, and camels.
- The nomads also hunted, served as bodyguards, escorted caravans, and worked as mercenaries.
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- Other origin hypotheses include
an Indo-Aryan Migration in the period 1800–1500 BCE (Before Common Era) and a fusion
of the nomadic people known as Kurgans.
- Wheeler, who was Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of
India from 1944 to 1948, suggested that a nomadic, Indo-European tribe called
the Aryans suddenly overwhelmed and conquered the Indus River Valley.
- According to this theory, these
nomadic pastoralists expanded throughout
the Pontic-Caspian steppe and into Eastern Europe by early 3000 BCE.
- The
Indo-Aryans in the Early Vedic Period, approximately 1750–1000 BCE, relied
heavily on a pastoral, semi-nomadic economy with limited agriculture.
- After
the 12th century BCE, Vedic society transitioned from semi-nomadic to settled
agriculture.
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- The nomadic tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia primarily practiced polytheism, although some tribes converted to Judaism and Christianity.
- A thriving community of Jewish tribes existed in pre-Islamic Arabia and included both sedentary and nomadic communities.
- Poetry was also a form of entertainment, as many poets constructed prose about the nature and beauty surrounding their nomadic lives.
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- Anthropologists rejected the idea that culture was unique to Western society and adopted a new definition of culture that applied to all societies, literate and non-literate, settled and nomadic.
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- Emperor Wu repelled the invading barbarians (the Xiongnu, or Huns, a
nomadic-pastoralist warrior people from the Eurasian steppe) and roughly doubled
the size of the empire, claiming lands including Korea, Manchuria, and even
part of Turkistan.
- By this century the Chinese had become very active in the silk trade, though
until the Hans provided sufficient protection, the Silk Road had not functioned
well because of nomad pirates.
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- Civilization in America began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across Beringia.
- The beginning of civilization in America occurred during the last Ice Age when the nomadic, ancestral peoples of the Americas—the Paleo-Indians—migrated into the current-day continental United States and Canada.
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- The majority of hunter-gatherer societies are nomadic.
- Given that hunter-gatherers tend to be nomadic, they generally cannot store surplus food.
- Like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are often nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
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- Many separate indigenous cultures
developed and prospered in North America after the first waves of nomadic
Paleo-Indians migrated to the continent across Beringia near the end of the
Last Glacial Maximum.
- Civilization in America
began during the last Ice Age when nomadic Paleo-Indians migrated across
Beringia.
- While the increasing use of agriculture meant the nomadic nature of
many groups was supplanted by permanent villages, intensive agriculture did not
become the norm for most cultures until the succeeding Mississippian period.
- As Southwestern cultural traditions evolved, tribes transitioned
from a hunting-gathering, nomadic experience to more permanent agricultural
settlements.
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- The San were hunters and gatherers with a nomadic lifestyle.
- During the 17th century, the Herero, a pastoral, nomadic people keeping cattle, moved into Namibia.
- During the 17th century the Herero, a pastoral, nomadic people keeping cattle, moved into Namibia.
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- Nomadic hunter-gatherers who later practiced organized farming and built cities, the Jōmon people are named for the "cord-markings"—impressions made by pressing rope into the clay before it was heated to approximately 600-900 degrees Celsius—that were found as decorations on pottery of this time.