Nomads

Nomads

The Earliest People

By Lydia

   Nomads were people who traveled place to place finding food.  They wore the same clothes every day.  Their clothes were made with animal skin.  Nomad girls and women picked berries and caught lizards for food.  Men hunted buffalo and other animals. 

    In the beginning Nomads lived in teepees made from animal hide in warm weather.  In colder weather they lived in caves. People found out because they drew pictures on the walls of the caves. 

   Nomads stopped moving when they came to a river.  They stayed there because the animals didn’t move since there was water.  They built villages because they didn’t move.   They planted crops.  This made them the first farmers.  They watered the crops by building a pulley called a shaduf.  It had a rock at the end and a bowl in front.  They pushed the rock up and the bowl went into the water scooping up the water. 

   The first Nomad villages had gates around them to keep animals in.   They built walls to keep bandits and wild animals out.   One of the tallest and strongest walls was 10 feet thick and 35 feet high.  These were the first cites.  They found out you could catch animals and tame them to get milk and food. 

   My favorite part about Nomad studies was making our own Nomad village.  

My cave paintings.

These are the bricks I made out of mud for our village.

This is our Nomad village.

This is the shaduf we made for our village.