7 sentences with 'nomadic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nomadic and other words derived from it.
• « The story of Moses leading the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt could also have been based on events associated with the collapse of the Bronze Age, the great century of upheaval in which nomadic raiders joined forces with oppressed peasants and slaves to overthrow the great Bronze Age empires. »
• « To the northeast were the steppes, home to a steppe-dwelling nomadic people called the Scythians, against whom the Persians would fight for centuries (Cyrus himself died in battle against the Scythians in 530 BC. - He was 70 years old at the time). »
• « Macedonia was also surrounded by nomadic peoples to the north, particularly the Thracians (from present-day Bulgaria), who repeatedly invaded and had to be repelled. »
• « Although the Sassanid kings were obliged to rule both settled and nomadic peoples, as had all previous Persian dynasties, they were more successful in creating a stable system of government, not just relying on their own charismatic authority. »
• « In the 8th century an even more ferocious nomadic people invaded, the Bulgars (after whom the present-day country of Bulgaria is named). »
• « Also, the relative calm of the Macedonian period ended with the rise of a new group of invaders from the east: the Seljuk Turks. A powerful group of nomadic invaders from western Central Asia, the Turks had converted to Islam centuries earlier. »
• « This was also the case with the nomadic peoples of North Africa, collectively called "Berbers" by the Arabs. »