AIM: HOW DID THE STEPPES OF CENTRAL ASIA ENCOURAGE THE RISE OF WARRIOR SOCIETIES?

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AIM HOW DID THE STEPPES OF CENTRAL ASIA
ENCOURAGE THE RISE OF WARRIOR SOCIETIES?
Do now In one sentence describe what a nomad
is. Identify one positive and one negative about
taking on this lifestyle?
HW Imagine you are from the steppes and are
writing a letter to your cousin in Japan.
Explain your lifestyle and discuss your daily
routine in this letter. Use detail from your
notes. (one page letter)
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Geography of Central Asia
Notes

• Steppes- belt of grasslands that sweeps for
  roughly 5,000 miles in between Europe and China
• Treeless plains that make up 15 of the earths
  surface
• Steppes provide a feeding ground for pastoral
  animals such as sheep and goats
• Little to no rainfall (10-20 inches per year)
• Present day Mongolia
• Long, cold winter and hot summers
• Home to many nomadic tribes such as the Turks,
  Tartars, Huns and Mongols

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The nation of the Huns surpasses all other
Barbarians in wildness of life And though they
do just bear the likeness of men they are so
little advanced in civilization that they make no
use of fire, nor of any kind of relish, in the
preparation of their food, but feed upon the
roots which they find in the fields and the
half-raw flesh of any sort of animal. I say
half-raw, because they give it a kind of cooking
by placing it between their own thighs and the
backs their horses
Would you be willing to live this type of
life???????????
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Domesticated animals such as the sheep below were
important to the survival of the people on the
Steppes
Yurt- tent with a wooden frame and covering used
by people of the Steppes
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Where are the Steppes of Central Asia????
What people/civilizations do you suppose these
warrior societies came into contact with?
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NOTES
LIFESTYLE OF PEOPLE IN THE STEPPES
excellent on horseback nomadic- constantly on
the search for resources reliant on domesticated
animals for survival tough, fierce warriors
feared by the civilized world
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