MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
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Detailed explanation-1: -A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads.
Detailed explanation-2: -pastoral nomadism, one of the three general types of nomadism, a way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically. Pastoral nomads, who depend on domesticated livestock, migrate in an established territory to find pasturage for their animals.
Detailed explanation-3: -A pastoral society is a nomadic group of people who travel with a herd of domesticated animals, which they rely on for food. The word ‘pastoral’ comes from the Latin root word pastor, which means ‘shepherd. ‘ Someone living in a pastoral society is called a pastoralist.