A Disappearing Traveller


Summary
The passage describes the lifestyle of the nomadic tribes of the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East Nomads are members of a community who do not have a fixed habitat and regularly move from one place to another They usually engage in activities such as hunting gathering and pastoral farming The title A Disappearing Traveller rightly captures the spirit of wandering around in new lands that nomads live by They suffer from no restrictions or obligations and move according to their will from one place to another just like a traveller who temporarily stays at some place and then ...

Available Answers

  1. 1.

    How frequently do the two kinds of nomadic tribes move? What decides their patten of movement?

  2. 2.
    Why do you think there are fewer nomads in the modern world compared to earlier times?
  3. 3.

    List the various goods owned by nomads that are mentioned in the passage

  4. 4.

    When and why does the Bedouin go to an oasis? What does he do there?

  5. 5.

    According to the passage, how were the herders of the desert able to become the rules of the Middle-East? Give one other reason that may have led to these nomads becoming conquerors

  6. 6.

    What might be some of the advantages of living a nomadic life?

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