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Nomadic Society
Mind map: Nomadic society
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Nomadic Society
SOCIAL
- Fluid Class structure
- nobles
- commoners
- autonomous clans / tribes
- Fluid Class structure
POLITICAL
- military organization
- Ruled by "KHAN"
- confederation of individual tribes
- powerful cavalry
- military organization
INTERACTION W/ ENVIRONMENT
- central Asia's steppes --> good fore grazing
- Peoples = nomadic herders
- migratory cycles; live mostly on animal product
- need to trade for other goods
- migratory cycles; live mostly on animal product
- Peoples = nomadic herders
- central Asia's steppes --> good fore grazing
CULTURE
- Religion
- shamanism
- Buddhism
- Nestorian Christianity
- by 10th cent. Islam
- Religion
ECONOMY
- nomads trade w/settled peoples for goods
- Caravan trade
- Produced: limited amounts of millet, pottery, leather goods, iron