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Pastoral Peoples: Kinship, Conflict, and Exchange

6th Grade · Social Studies · NCHS

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Understand how pastoral societies organized themselves through kinship and how they interacted with agrarian states through both conflict and mutual dependence.

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usWH-ERA-2.S1.22National Center for History in the Schools Standards · 6th Grade

[Grades 9-12] Analyze the role of pastoral peoples in the history of Eurasia and Africa up to 1000 BCE and explain why relations between herding and agrarian societies tended to involve both conflict and mutual dependence. [Draw comparisons across eras and regions]