peasants and fend off invasions‚ they differed in the structure and organization of their bureaucracies and the control that the emperors had over the governors of the provinces. In order to control their populace and prevent invasions by nomadic people‚ the roman and Han empires developed powerful militaries and elaborate infrastructures. The roman army was known for its power and strength throughout the Mediterranean world due to their organization‚ training‚ and advanced weaponry. Roman
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to pass by Persepolis with all of their wealth in sheep‚ goats‚ and horses‚ and he who ruled Persepolis ruled what then was Persia. One of the tribes that still use this route today is the Basseri of Iran. (Coon‚ 1962) The Basseri of Iran was a nomadic pastoralist society from the beginning of their existence. The Basseri are located in southwest Iran and were housed in tents. Each tent housed a nuclear family and many tents made up a camp for the Basseri. An independent household occupied every
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Transformation of the Mongols The Mongols were a group of pastoral nomadic peoples whose expansion into Central Asia led to the dispersion of ideas‚ culture‚ and technology throughout the continent. Until 1206 AD‚ the Mongols were a group of warring tribes. The Mongols centralized‚ expanded and transformed under their charismatic leader‚ Genghis Khan. The Mongol empire expanded into Russia‚ Afghanistan‚ Persia‚ and Ukraine. The Mongols consumed most of Central Asia through a series of brutal
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living in a zoo‚ caged and sedentary‚ being stared at by onlookers‚ as well as one animal in particular: the jaguar. In this poem‚ we see how certain animals have let their cage define them‚ and have grown into almost inanimate objects whereas the panther‚ symbol of power and greatness‚ has not let itself be confined to the realm of his cage and instead uses his vision‚ his mind‚ to escape the entrapment. Hughes paints an extremely vivid description of the sedentary and monotonous life of caged
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In the Americas and Africa‚ all the societies were both Sedentary and semi sedentary. While in Europe they were mostly Sedentary. All three continents had complex political structures. As Spanish and Portuguese explored the Atlantic‚ a happy accident and a miscalculation led to transatlantic exploration‚ which no one could have planned. In
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2000‚ the total cost of obesity for children and adults in the United States was estimated to be $117 billion (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website‚ n.d). Approximately 17% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are obese. Sedentary behavior is implicated in youth and adult overweight and obesity (CDC website‚ 2011). Overweight and obese children are likely to stay obese into adulthood and more likely to develop noncommunicable diseases like high cholesterol‚ hypertension‚
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As the classical era came to an end‚ social unrest‚ economic decline‚ and nomadic invasions all contributed to the collapse of the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire. Despite these similarities‚ these regions experienced contrasting effects‚ as a result differing religious and economic systems already in place. As a result of the
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The Basseri of Iran: A Pastoral Society Kristin K. Lilienthal ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Kimberly Long October‚ 8 2012 The Basseri of Iran The Basseri of Iran are tent dwelling and nomadic people. The Basseri live in the south of Iran‚ in the Fars Province. While the origin of the Basseri is unclear‚ it is believed that they are of Arab decent (Amanolahi‚ 2003). The Basseri have traditionally been pastoralist‚ herding both sheep and goats. This paper will explore
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established a much more lax governance than usual. After the Seljuk victory at the Battle of Manzikert in 1071‚ hordes of nomadic tribes began to spill into the newly Seljuk-controlled lands of Anatolia. However‚ instead of forcing these tribes to settle into towns‚ so as to be able to implement their control more easily and efficiently‚ the Seljuks allowed them to remain nomadic and establish themselves wherever they pleased. Finally‚ the way in which each respective empire mounted their decline
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Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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