Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nomadic Society
- SOCIAL
- Fluid Class structure
- nobles
- commoners
- autonomous
clans / tribes
- POLITICAL
- military
organization
- Ruled by "KHAN"
- confederation of
individual tribes
- powerful cavalry
- 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
- CULTURE
- Religion
- shamanism
- Buddhism
- Nestorian
Christianity
- by 10th cent. Islam
- ECONOMY
- nomads trade
w/settled peoples for
goods
- Caravan trade
- Produced: limited
amounts of millet, pottery,
leather goods, iron