Inspired by the legendary Egyptian warrior, "The Scorpion King" is set 5000 years ago in the notorious city of Gomorrah, where an evil ruler is determined to lay waste to all the nomadic peoples of the desert. The few remaining tribes, never natural allies, have to unite or perish. Knowin...
(owe) to Ban Chao, a Chinese general who spent over 30 years battling6union of nomadic (游牧的) tribes to regain control of the farthest western reaches of China. The flatbread bun, called baijimo, takes its name from7is today known as Beiji township. There exist differences between the ...
the Sahara's water allows the desert to remain the home of nomadic tribes and fauna. A number of oases -- places where water from underground reaches the surface -- are on what once were caravan routes and today are much more modern roads. They are ...
The Mongol army’s lethality, combined with Genghis’ vision and charisma, allowed this small nomadic tribe to conquer most of China by 1215 and the Islamic Khwarezmid Empire by 1221. By his death around 1227, Genghis had unleashed the Mongol horde that would go on to build the largest ...
Although the peninsular land mass that makes up Qatar has sustained humans for thousands of years, for the bulk of its history the arid climate fostered only short-term settlements by nomadic tribes. [source] Qatar (Arabic:قطر ), officially the State of Qatar (Arabic:دولة...
CSC E-Governance Services India Limited and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (Government of India) have started the CSC UCL Registration 2024 through the Digital Seva Portal. Village Level Entrepreneurs (VLEs), whether women or men, can complete their CSC Aadhaar UCL registration...
Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a small country on the northeast coast of the Horn of Africa. Through close contacts with the Arabian Peninsula for more than a thousand years, the Somali and Afar tribes in this region became among the first on the African [source] ...
Chiseled out of pale pink sandstone, the ancient metropolis of Petra in Jordan’s Jebel al-Madhbah mountains is an architectural and engineering marvel nonpareil. Carved more than 2,000 years ago by the Nabataeans, a nomadic Arab tribe, the breathtaking megalith boasts an abundance of awe-inspi...
The Unconqueredby Scott Wallace (suggested by Gill). A journey into the Amazon in search of one of the last uncontacted tribes. Canada The Hockey Sweater and Other Storiesby Roch Carrier. Tales of a childhood in a Quebec village. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzby Mordecai Richler. The cla...
Botswana's economy is given a serious boost by being the world's third-largest producer of diamonds, and a large exporter of beef to Europe. In addition, it has a solid level of tourism, [source] The first known inhabitants of present day Botswana were nomadic foragers, Khoe & San spea...