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This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries .
Bedouins in the Sinai Region, 1967. The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (/ ˈ b ɛ d u ɪ n /; [15] Arabic: بَدْو, romanized: badw, singular بَدَوِي badawī) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes [16] who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (). [17]
An early theory proposed by Owen Lattimore suggesting that the nomadic tribes could have been self-sufficient was criticized by later scholars, who questioned whether their raids may have been motivated by necessity rather than greed. Subsequent studies noted that nomadic demand for grain, textiles and ironware exceeded China's demand for ...
One nomadic society, the Mongols, gave rise to the largest land empire in history. The Mongols originally consisted of loosely organized nomadic tribes in Mongolia, Manchuria, and Siberia. In the late 12th century, Genghis Khan united them and other nomadic tribes to found the Mongol Empire, which eventually stretched the length of Asia. [9]
This category is ambiguously titled and should be split to distinguish two separate scopes: groups practicing actual nomadic pastoralism today (Category:Nomads)"itinerant" groups (sometimes described as "nomadic" in a loose sense of the word)
Peru has 15 isolated tribes within the region. Many tribes have violent welcomes for modern society. Trace discusses some of the world's most isolated tribes and why some groups are worried about ...
They are a semi-nomadic people who mostly practice Islam, and are descended from the indigenous Berber communities of Northern Africa, whose ancestry has been described as a mosaic of local Northern African , Middle Eastern, European (Early European Farmers), and Sub-Saharan African, prior to the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
The Negev Bedouin (Arabic: بدْو النقب, Badwu an-Naqab; Hebrew: הבדואים בנגב , HaBedu'im BaNegev) are traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab tribes (), while some are of sub-Saharan African descent, [7] who until the later part of the 19th century would wander between Hijaz in the east and the Sinai Peninsula in the west. [8]