nomadic

Examples of nomadic in the following topics:

• The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

  • 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.

• The Indo-Aryan Migration and the Vedic Period

  • 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.

• Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

  • 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.

• The Silk Road

  • 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.

• Namibia

  • 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.

• Genghis Khan

  • He was born around 1162 in modern-day northern Mongolia into a nomadic tribe with noble ties and powerful alliances.
  • During this era, and possibly spurred by the capture of his wife, Temujin united the nomadic, previously ever-rivaling Mongol tribes under his rule through political manipulation and military might, and also reclaimed his bride from the rebellious tribe.
  • This map illustrates the many tribes inhabiting the nomadic Mongolian region before the rise of Genghis Khan.

• The Rise of Egyptian Civilization

  • The Harifian culture migrated out of the Fayyum and the Eastern deserts of Egypt to merge with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B; this created the Circum-Arabian Nomadic Pastoral Complex, who invented nomadic pastoralism, and may have spread Proto-Semitic language throughout Mesopotamia.

• The Germanic Tribes

  • The Germanic tribes, an ancient nomadic civilization, used their superior military strength to lay the foundation for modern Europe.
  • During the 5th century, as the Western Roman Empire lost military strength and political cohesion, numerous nomadic Germanic peoples, under pressure from population growth and invading Asian groups, began migrating en masse in various directions, taking them to Great Britain and far south through present-day Continental Europe to the Mediterranean and Northern Africa.

• Nubia and Ancient Culture

  • By the Sixth Dynasty, Nubia was fractured into a group of small kingdoms; the population (called "C-Group") may have been made up of Saharan nomads.

• Bornu Empire

  • The empire of Kanem began forming around CE 300 under the nomadic Tebu-speaking Kanembu.
  • The Kanembu eventually abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and founded a capital around 700 CE under the first documented Kanembu king (mai) known as Sef of Saif.