Describe the lifestyle of the people living near oasis in the Sahara desert ?
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The largest group of people who inhabited the Sahara Desert are called Tauregs. Descended from Berbers in the region that is now Libya, the Tuareg are descendants of ancient Saharan peoples described by Herodotus, who mentions the ancient Libyan people, the Garamantes. Archaeological testimony is the ruins of Germa. Later, they expanded southward, into the Sahel.
For over two millennia, the Tuareg operated the trans-Saharan caravan trade connecting the great cities on the southern edge of the Sahara via five desert trade routes to the northern Mediterranean coast of Africa.
The Tuareg adopted camel nomadism along with its distinctive form of social organization from camel-herding Arabs about two thousand years ago, when the camel was introduced to the Sahara from Arabia.
Many Tuareg today are either settled agriculturalists or nomadic cattle breeders, though there are also blacksmiths and caravan leaders.
The Tuareg are matrilineal, though not matriarchal. Unlike many Muslim societies, women do not traditionally wear the veil, whereas men do. Tuareg people have very personal marriages; there 's an unspoken law about other people not interfering with marriage. The only tradition they know is a 'quarantine ' period after one 's husband 's/wife 's death.
Although Tuareg aren 't supposed to have more than one life partner a relationship is practically equal to an engagement and once you 're a couple you 're expected to get married, it is highly unusual for them to stay single. When a partner passes away, they are expected to get married again when the quarantine is finished. If there are no potential partners or the widow or widower is too old to get married, there are exceptions.
The Tuareg are a pastoral people, having an economy based on livestock breeding, trading, and agriculture. Women process milk, make butter, prepare animal skins, make clothes and bedding from skin, collect firewood and water. Men drive the animals take responsibility for selling. Men will take camels to towns to sell them, returning with millet which they use as flour for bread making. Other purchases will include sugar and tea. Most outputs, however, are consumed by the family
In recent times the Tuareg have been abandoning their nomadic way of life and take up sedentary lifestyles. Drought and government policy are threatening their traditional way of life but Tuaregs and their camel-caravans still appear unexpectedly on the horizon before melting into the desert again.
For over two millennia, the Tuareg operated the trans-Saharan caravan trade connecting the great cities on the southern edge of the Sahara via five desert trade routes to the northern Mediterranean coast of Africa.
The Tuareg adopted camel nomadism along with its distinctive form of social organization from camel-herding Arabs about two thousand years ago, when the camel was introduced to the Sahara from Arabia.
Many Tuareg today are either settled agriculturalists or nomadic cattle breeders, though there are also blacksmiths and caravan leaders.
The Tuareg are matrilineal, though not matriarchal. Unlike many Muslim societies, women do not traditionally wear the veil, whereas men do. Tuareg people have very personal marriages; there 's an unspoken law about other people not interfering with marriage. The only tradition they know is a 'quarantine ' period after one 's husband 's/wife 's death.
Although Tuareg aren 't supposed to have more than one life partner a relationship is practically equal to an engagement and once you 're a couple you 're expected to get married, it is highly unusual for them to stay single. When a partner passes away, they are expected to get married again when the quarantine is finished. If there are no potential partners or the widow or widower is too old to get married, there are exceptions.
The Tuareg are a pastoral people, having an economy based on livestock breeding, trading, and agriculture. Women process milk, make butter, prepare animal skins, make clothes and bedding from skin, collect firewood and water. Men drive the animals take responsibility for selling. Men will take camels to towns to sell them, returning with millet which they use as flour for bread making. Other purchases will include sugar and tea. Most outputs, however, are consumed by the family
In recent times the Tuareg have been abandoning their nomadic way of life and take up sedentary lifestyles. Drought and government policy are threatening their traditional way of life but Tuaregs and their camel-caravans still appear unexpectedly on the horizon before melting into the desert again.
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