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| | Old World Contacts/Diplomats & Other Travellers/Nomads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Nomads have lived on the steppes of Eurasia, from the northern shores of the Black Sea eastward to Mongolia, for the past 3,000 years. |
 | | Since the early first millennium BCE, many of the nomadic groups of Central Asia were dependent upon the raising and herding of various types of animals, such as horses, sheep, camels, and, to a lesser extent, cattle. |
 | | Because of the drier climatic conditions in Central Asia, these peoples had to move from place to place in order to provide adequate grazing and water resources for their animals. |
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