nomadic pastoralism

(noun)

The herding of livestock to find fresh pasture to graze.

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Examples of nomadic pastoralism in the following topics:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Double Disasters

    • These former pastoral nomads converted to Islam and ushered in a new phase of Islamic conquests.

  • 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.

  • Societal Development

    • Some societies have stopped at the pastoral or horticultural stage (e.g., Bedouin nomads), though these may be temporary pauses due to economic niches that will likely disappear over time.
    • The majority of hunter-gatherer societies are nomadic.
    • Because hunter-gatherers tend to be nomadic, they generally do not have the possibility to store surplus food.
    • It is often the case that, like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
    • For instance, in Australia, the vast semi-arid areas in the interior of the country contain pastoral runs called sheep stations.

  • The Four Social Revolutions

    • Human groups begin as hunter-gatherers, after which they develop pastoralism and/or horticulturalism.
    • 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.
    • For example, in Australia, the vast, semi-arid interior of the country contains huge pastoral runs called sheep stations.

  • 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.
    • The Silk Road helped to integrate cultures, but also exposed tribal and pastoral societies to new developments, sometimes causing them to become skilled warriors.

  • Migration to North America

    • 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.
    • With permanent residency, some cultures developed into agricultural societies while others became pastoral.

  • Spread of Islam

    • For the polytheistic and pagan societies, apart from the religious and spiritual reasons each individual may have had, conversion to Islam "represented the response of a tribal, pastoral population to the need for a larger framework for political and economic integration, a more stable state, and a more imaginative and encompassing moral vision to cope with the problems of a tumultuous society."
    • The Arab-Muslim conquests followed a general pattern of nomadic conquests of settled regions, whereby conquering peoples became the new military elite and reached a compromise with the old elites by allowing them to retain local political, religious, and financial authority.

  • Vaudeville

    • In the early 1880s, impresario Tony Pastor, a circus ringmaster turned theatre manager, capitalized on middle class sensibilities and spending power when he began to feature "polite" variety programs in several of his New York City theatres .
    • The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is October 24, 1881 at New York's Fourteenth Street Theater, when Pastor famously staged the first bill of self-proclaimed "clean" vaudeville in New York City.
    • Hoping to draw a potential audience from female and family-based shopping traffic uptown, Pastor barred the sale of liquor in his theatres, eliminated bawdy material from his shows, and offered gifts of coal and hams to attendees.
    • Pastor's experiment proved successful, and other managers soon followed suit.
    • Jack How I Envy You with Tony Pastor and Bonnie Thorton