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The Tai Dam (Tai Dam: ꪼꪕ ꪒꪾ, Lao: ໄຕດຳ, Thai: ไทดำ) are an ethnic minority predominantly from China, northwest Vietnam, Laos, Thailand. They are part of the Tai peoples and ethnically similar to the Thai from Thailand, the Lao from Laos and the Shan from Shan State , Myanmar .
Like in other Tai societies, the core social units of the Tai Dam, Tai Dón and Tai Daeng were the village (ban) and the chiefdom (mueang, Vietnamese mường), each consisting of several villages and ruled by a feudal lord (chao). Their base of life was wet rice cultivation, which is why the Tai settled in valleys alongside the course of rivers.
When the American Indians first arrived (in what is now Iowa) thousands of years ago they would hunt and gather living in a Pleistocene glacial landscape. By the time European explorers visited Iowa, American Indians were largely settled farmers with complex economic, social, and political systems. This transformation happened gradually.
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The book concerns and investigates the history of several generations of Asian American immigrants and descendants, as well as the changing nature of Asian American life throughout several centuries. [3] It was awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association in ...
History of the Tai peoples and ethnic groups which range west to east from the Ahom of the Upper Brahmaputra river in Assam, to the Shan of Myanmar, Hkamti Shan, Mohnyin (Chinese: Meng Yang, Tai: Mong Yang), Theinni (Chinese: Mu Bang, Tai: Hsenwi), Thibaw (Tai:Hsipaw, Onpaung), Nyaungshwe, Mone (Tai: Mong Nai), Chiang Rung (Sipsongpanna, Chinese: Cheli), Tai Dam and Tai Daeng of northern ...
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
Printable version; In other projects ... Latin American history (7 C, 35 P) N. ... Spanish conquests in the Americas (6 C, 10 P) T. Timelines of the Americas (2 C, ...