Nomad

shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.” During this Sabbatical year, organized farming, plowing, pruning and reaping were forbidden, and the children of Israel were to “behave like the nomads they were before the conquest.” “The emphasis on the Sabbatical Year is that the land is lie fallow.” However, according to Hamilton there other emphases within the Sabbatical Year: Exodus 23:11claims it is for “the needy of your…

Elimination of life threatens Horn of Africa Somalia like most African countries is suffering from environmental degradation and desertification, the country suffers from both natural and manmade environmental issues. High levels of deforestation and overgrazing cause desertification and soil erosion. Productive land is destroyed by irrigation. The country has a growing population, people who depend on Agriculture as a way of making a living alongside raising livestock. There is very low…

Since the invention of computers or machines, their capability to perform various tasks went on growing exponentially. Humans have developed the power of computer systems in terms of their diverse working domains, their increasing speed, and reducing size with respect to time. A branch of Computer Science named Artificial Intelligence pursues creating the computers or machines as intelligent as human beings. What is Artificial Intelligence? According to the father of Artificial Intelligence,…

Historians and archeologists have found evidence of human civilization in the Nile Valley dating as far back as 120,000 years ago. Over time, population began to grow and divide itself into two kingdoms, Upper and Lower Egypt. Around 3150 B.C., a pharaoh from the Early Dynastic Period gained control of both kingdoms uniting them to form the Egypt known today. With a population of 90 million, it makes Egypt the third most populated country in all of Africa. Roughly, 20 percent of this…

China 's Military History and Culture Introduction The history of China was shaped by armed conflicts and wars. Especially, China’s military history can be dated back to 2200 BC and divided into the following periods that are before 1911, the period of the Republic of China and the People 's Liberation Army (PLA) (Graff & Higham, 2012). Noteworthy, most of the imperial dynasties in China were established from successful battles. However, the great peasant rebellion and the collapse of the…

Today, most families are faced with hardships, but Jeannette Walls and John Steinbeck wrote some of the best examples of endurance in their novels The Glass Castle and The Grapes of Wrath. In The Glass Castle, Walls wrote about her childhood and problems that were unique to her family. Steinbeck wrote about a very common issue that tenant farmers faced during the dust bowl and Great Depression of the 1930’s. He wrote of a fictional family, the Joads. The Walls and Joad family both lived their…

Between 1206 and 1368, an extraordinary tribe of Central Asian nomads arose in the steppes of Mongolia to form one of the world 's largest contiguous land empires in history - the Mongol Empire. Led by Genghis Khan, the Mongols, within a span of less than 80 years, grew to encompass 24,000,000 square kilometers of the continent of Eurasia. In saying so, as part of the Mongol conquests, an approximated 30 million or more people had died. However, while his image in much of the world was shaped by…

The Rwandan Genocide Kofi Annan once said that “A genocide begins with the killing of one man-not for what he has done, but because of who he is.”, this is the exact definition of the Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide happened in Rwanda on April 7, 1994 and lasted for 100 days. This genocide was done by the Hutus an ethnic group in Rwanda to the Tutsis also in Rwanda. In those days over 800,000 people died. It was total chaos, neighbors were killing neighbors, women were being raped, and…

Nomadic cattle breeding and the Scythian culture itself originated in the south of Siberia - the Sayano-Altai highlands and the adjacent territories of Mongolia and north China. It was from there, starting from the 8th century BC, the spread of nomads to the west began, where the Scythians were recognized by their settled neighbors - the Assyrians, Greeks, Persians. Scythians from ancient times became famous as skilled horse archers and those who did not know the fear and pity of the warriors.…

. Africa, which is home to the oldest human civilization, gave mankind the use of tools, astronomy, mathematics, jewelry, art, literature, and animal domestication. Though, the evolution of warfare can be their biggest impact on the world because it allowed their other achievements to thrive. This paper will focus, in chronological order, the evolution and impact military organizations, ideas, and activities had on political, economic, social and cultural influences within societies. This…