Pastoral Nomads Research Paper

Before the second millennium, pastoral nomads and settled people had very little contact. They would trade goods that the other society did not possess. Eventually, the pastoralists came to the conclusions that living a settled life was more beneficial. Being in a settled area was better for organized government and growing crops. Pastoral nomads invaded the city-states around them and eventually took over. Now, there are primary sources historians can use to discover what was life like when all of this occurred in around 2000 BCE. When the pastoral nomads invaded city-states, they influenced and dominated those areas both religiously and politically. Today, we are able to use primary sources such as Epic of Gilgamesh, the Rig Veda, the Stele of Hammurabi, and the story of Manu to look into what life was like during this time. Their dominance was established by changing the city-state’s view on the role of the goddesses and creating new religious beliefs, and showing how the gods were in favor of pastoral nomadic power while in Mesopotamia they were making militaristic values the most important attribute in terms of leadership and worship in society. List your primary sources -- Kelley want us to Pastoral nomads invaded different areas and then changed the religious values of those areas to their own advantages and beliefs. This …show more content…
It explains the four varnas which was a new way to look at people’s religious jobs and duties. Of course, the pastoralists put themselves as the top tier, the Brahmins, which were the equivalent of the temple servants in Mesopotamia. The indigenous people were seen as the lowest level, the Shudras, and had little to none religious responsibility or respect. This changed the religious belief entirely because the original people had to change who they respected, prayed to, and who they allowed(or had to allow) to communicate with the