Nomads
San rock painting of hunters, date uncertain, from South Africa
Nomads are people who travel around from place to place without having
one settled place where they live. Many are hunters
and gatherers like the San.
Often they are shepherds, goatherds, or cattle herders. Sometimes they
do stay in one place all winter, and only travel in the summer, or the
other way around.
Mongols
But the needs of the sheep or
cows force them to go where they
can find grass for the sheep or cows to eat.
Most nomads trade with settled people in cities, selling their goat meat, their donkeys, and their horses, as well as cheese, to the city people in exchange for grain (wheat or barley), beans, olive oil, and manufactured things like jewelry or knives.
Most nomads trade with settled people in cities, selling their goat meat, their donkeys, and their horses, as well as cheese, to the city people in exchange for grain (wheat or barley), beans, olive oil, and manufactured things like jewelry or knives.
People living in cities used to think nomads were stupid and lazy,
because they didn't live in houses
or work regular jobs or go to school. Sometimes city people thought
that nomads were thieves, because many times thieves would also go out
from the cities and live alone in the country, hiding out to keep from
being killed. The West Asian religion of Zoroastrianism
is very harsh toward nomads.
On the other side, many nomads, like the Jews, didn't think much of the city people either. Nomads tended to think that city people were wimpy, and also that they were bad, because they had things like fancy dresses and perfume that the nomads mostly didn't have, and they drank more wine and beer.
Some examples of groups of people who have lived as nomads are the
Jews, the Arabs,
the Mongols, the San
and the Berbers.
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