Lifestyle of Sahara Desert?

Question

What is the lifestyle of people who live in the Sahara Desert?
I have an assignment and I cant find anything.I thought google was my best friend but i found nothing on the lifestyle.
Also if possible.
What do the animals and peoples diets consist of?

Answer 1

Nomadic herders living at a subsistence level. Excess produce is traded for things they can't produce themselves.
Try putting ' "nomadic herders" + "sahara desert" ' in a search engine. this should cut down your hits and give the information that you need.
You could also check out National Geographic at your local library.

Answer 2

The Sahara is the biggest and hottest desert in the world so the people lived in the sahara desert, would be very thirsty or dead. Its parched, forbidding landscape took shape over thousands of years, but even today, the Sahara is constantly changing. Why is this desert so important to Africans? How do people survive its harsh, dry climate? And is the Sahara getting bigger, or smaller? By studying satellite photos, some scientists have come to believe that the Sahara regularly shrinks and grows. In the early 1980s, the Sahara's southern edge expanded into the Sahel, a dry band that separates the desert from the savanna. But by the mid-1980s this area was green and wet again. The Sahara receives less than three inches of rain a year; Chicago's annual precipitation, its combined rainfall, snow and sleet, is 33.34 inches (84.68 cm). Even in the Sahara's wettest areas, it may rain twice one week and not rain again for years. For centuries caravaneers have traveled through the Sahara desert. Even though there are many oases in the Sahara, the desert is so immense that travelers may go for days to reach them. Oasis Oases make trade possible between the ports of North Africa and savanna markets further south. Without these wet rest stops for humans and animals, crossing the desert would be almost impossible. As the world's biggest desert, the Sahara covers a third of the African continent-an area about the size of the United States. The Sahara is one of the hottest places on Earth. Even though temperatures there may rise to 136 F (57.7 C), its dryness, not heat, that makes a place like the Sahara a desert. The frozen continent of Antarctica is so dry that some scientists consider it a desert, too. As the world's largest desert, the Sahara receives less than three inches (7.6 cm) of rain a year. Even in its wettest areas, rain may arrive twice in one week, then not return for years.

Answer 3

the "sahara" is a big and varied place.
... it is kinda like asking "what is the lifestyle of Asia" ... scope of the topic is so vast it will be hard to find anything

Here's a suggestion, the area in the south where the non-dessert is transitioning into the desert is called the "Sahel", there is a very distinct type of living practiced by the tribes inhabiting that area, why don't you start by Googling "Sahel lifestyle" and take it from there.

Answer 4

The majority of the people living in the Sahara Desert are nomads, which means that these people are always moving from place to place.
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/africa/desertpeople.htm
animals
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/africa/desertanimals.htm
http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/cyberzoo/desert.html

Answer 5

Camels eat date palm leaves and people eat camels. They even milk camels...Makes me Sick