This is how nomadic farmers live
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Untertitel (90 segments)
Download2,000 years after humanity domesticated crops and livestock,
some farmers kicked off humanity’s next agricultural innovation: pastoralism.
These pioneering livestock farmers strategically guided animals
to seasonal grazing areas.
Their mobile lifestyle allowed them to develop trade relationships
with communities and farmers along their routes.
And this way of life provided pastoralists with wealth, social status,
and political independence all the way to the 20th century.
Today, there are hundreds of millions of mobile pastoralists,
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Key Vocabulary (28)
To continue to have or hold something in your possession or at your disposal. It also means to remain in a specific state, condition, or position without changing.
To make someone or something different or to become different. It can also mean to stop using one thing and start using another, such as putting on different clothes.
Less is an adverb used to indicate a smaller amount, degree, or extent of something. It is most frequently used to modify adjectives or verbs in comparative sentences to show that something is not as much as it was before or as much as something else.
A large area of land that has certain features, characteristics, or a specific climate that makes it different from other areas. It is used to describe parts of a country, a continent, or even specific parts of the human body.
Something that is specific relates to one particular thing and not others. It means being clear, exact, and giving detailed information instead of being general.
Historically is used to describe something that relates to the past or how things have changed over a long time. It helps explain that a situation or fact has been true for many years.
"Example sentence using historically."
Describes something that is able to move or be moved freely and easily. It is frequently used in contexts involving technology, social status, or physical agility.
Relating to the science, art, or practice of farming and cultivating the soil for the production of crops and the rearing of animals. It is primarily used to describe industries, land use, or policies connected to food production.
Relating to or happening during a particular time of the year. It describes things like weather, food, or activities that change according to the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
"The seasonal is important."
A century is a period of 100 years. It is a common unit of time used to group historical events and long durations.
"The century is important."
Grammar in This Video
"making them more vulnerable to climate change"
"But in the last century, political and economic policies have worked against the..."
"there are hundreds of millions of mobile pastoralists"
"pastoralists who produce the majority of meat and milk"
"political and economic policies have worked against these communities"
"were privatized or converted to wildlife reserves"
"tried to incentivize these mobile communities to put down roots"
"prevented land from being overgrazed"
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