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  2. List of nomadic peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Manchus are mistaken by some as nomadic people [2] when in fact they were not nomads, [3] [4] but instead were a sedentary agricultural people who lived in fixed villages, farmed crops, practiced hunting and mounted archery. The Sushen used flint headed wooden arrows, farmed, hunted, and fished, and lived in caves and trees. [5]

  3. Arab migrations to the Maghreb - Wikipedia

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    Arab migration to the Maghreb first started in the 7th century with the Arab conquest of the Maghreb.This first started in 647 under the Rashidun Caliphate, when Abdallah ibn Sa'd led the invasion with 20,000 soldiers from Medina in the Arabian Peninsula, swiftly taking over Tripolitania and then defeating a much larger Byzantine army at the Battle of Sufetula in the same year, forcing the new ...

  4. Khazars - Wikipedia

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    Kangar Union 659–750; ... the Middle East, ... it could no longer function as a bulwark against the pressure east and south of nomad expansions. By 1043, ...

  5. Eurasian Steppe - Wikipedia

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    South of the Kazakh steppe the nomads blended with the sedentary population, partly because the Middle East has significant areas of steppe (taken by force in past invasions) and pastoralism. There was a sharp cultural divide between Mongolia and China and almost constant warfare from the dawn of history until the Qing conquest of Dzungaria in ...

  6. Eurasian nomads - Wikipedia

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    Eurasian steppe nomads shared common Earth-rooted cosmological beliefs based on the themes of sky worship. [18] Ancient Turkic origin myths often reference caves or mines as a source of their ancestors, which reflects the importance of iron making among their ancestors. [18] Ageism was a feature of ancient Eurasian nomad culture. [19]

  7. Turkic migration - Wikipedia

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    An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples : ethnogenesis and state-formation in the medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East. Harrassowitz. Golden, Peter B. (2011). Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes. Editura Academiei Române - Editura Istro. ISBN 978-973-27-2152-0. Holster, Charles Warren (1993).

  8. Bedouin - Wikipedia

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    Bedouin territory stretches from the vast deserts of North Africa to the rocky ones of the Middle East. [ 22 ] [ better source needed ] They are sometimes traditionally divided into tribes, or clans (known in Arabic as ʿašāʾir ; عَشَائِر or qabāʾil قبائل ), and historically share a common culture of herding camels, sheep and ...

  9. Tribes of Arabia - Wikipedia

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    The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: . Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm and the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.