nomadic-pastoralist

(noun)

A lifestyle in which livestock are herded to find fresh grazing pastures in an irregular pattern of movement. 

Related Terms

  • Pax Sinica
  • Tang Dynasty
  • Pax Mongolica

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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Bantu Migration

    • Before the expansion of farming and pastoralist African peoples, Southern Africa was populated by hunter-gatherers and earlier pastoralists.
  • 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 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 Akkadian Empire

    • Rivalries between pastoralists and farmers increased.
  • 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.
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