nomadic-pastoralist

Examples of nomadic-pastoralist 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.
  • Pastoralists depend on their small herds of goats, sheep, camels, horses, or other animals for meat, milk, cheese, blood, fur/wool, and other sustenance.
  • The nomads also hunted, served as bodyguards, escorted caravans, and worked as mercenaries.

• 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 that included 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.

• Samburu

  • The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists who herd mainly cattle but also keep sheep, goats and camels.

• Buddhist Wall Paintings

  • In the year 480 CE, the Huns—nomadic-pastoralist warriors from the Eurasian steppe—launched an invasion of India, and by the year 500 CE, they had overrun the Gupta Empire.

• Gupta and Post-Gupta

  • By the middle of the 5th century a new enemy to the empire had appeared, nomadic-pastoralist warriors from the Eurasian steppe.

• The Indo-Aryan Migration and the Vedic Period

  • Other origin hypotheses include an Indo-Aryan Migration in the period 1800-1500 BCE, 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.

• The Rise of the Han Dynasty

  • 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 that included Korea, Manchuria, and even part of Turkistan.

• The Four Social Revolutions

  • The majority of hunter-gatherer societies are nomadic.
  • Given that hunter-gatherers tend to be nomadic, they generally cannot store surplus food.
  • In a pastoralist society, the primary means of subsistence are domesticated animals (livestock).
  • Like hunter-gatherers, pastoralists are often nomadic, moving seasonally in search of fresh pastures and water for their animals.
  • Pastoralist societies still exist.

• The Mesopotamian Cultures

  • Here, three separate cultures fused—the peasant Ubaidian farmers, the nomadic Semitic-speaking pastoralists (farmers who raise livestock), and fisher folk.

• Societal Development

  • 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.
  • Pastoralist societies still exist.
  • Other examples of pastoralists societies still in existence include: