7 sentences with “nomads”

The Mongols were nomads and herders with strong traditions of horsemanship, archery and warfare.

The Seljuk Turks were fierce fighters, trained by their origin as steppe nomads and raiders, who had converted to Islam before the 11th century.

The Turks began the transition from steppe nomads to rulers of settled kingdoms in the 10th century, culminating in the Seljuk invasion of the 11th century.

The nomads of the steppe regions were the first to domesticate horses, and for thousands of years only the steppe peoples knew how to fight directly on horseback rather than using chariots.

Traditionally, along with the Mongol people further east, the Turks were among the fiercest of steppe nomads, living by herding animals and raiding the 'civilised' lands to their south and west.

The bodies of those who perished, men in their 20s and 30s, lay scattered in the gorge until spring, when the nomads found them and covered them with stones. -If you stop to rest," Dorje concluded, "you will end up like them.

Instead, Seleucid rulers were first and foremost military leaders, often forced to criss-cross their vast empire by suppressing rebellions, fighting the encroachments of Central Asian nomads, and fighting with their neighbours in Egypt.