The Kazakhs are a Turkic grouping who mainly inhabit the chain and northern parts of Central Asia in Eurasia. The identity of Kazakh is of ancient origin and it was strongly moved by the motivation of the Kazakh Khanate from 1456 to 1465.
At that time several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu’l-Khayr Khan. Their diet consisted largely of milk products supplemented by mutton. Fermented mare’s milk (koumiss) and horse flesh were highly esteemed but usually available only to the prosperous.
Felt made the tent snug inside and out and was used for cloaks. The annual bird of Jove Festival sees wolf-skin clad Kazakhs go for the mountains on horseback, and golden eagles soar into the skies in celebration of this unique heritage. The encroachment of settled agriculture gradually curtailed their nomadic life on the pasturelands
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Within the 19th century, an increasing number of Kazakhs along the borders planted some crops. Their nomadic pastoral lifestyle made Kazakhs keep an epic tradition of oral history. The nation, which amalgamated nomadic tribes of assorted Kazakh origins, preserved the distant memory of the first founding clans.
It had been important for Kazakhs to understand their genealogical tree for not but seven generations back. In modern Kazakhstan, tribalism is dwindling away in business and government life. Still, it’s common for Kazakhs to ask one another the tribe they belong to once they become familiar with each other.
Now, it’s more of a practice than a necessity, and there’s no hostility between tribes. Kazakhs, irrespective of their tribal origin, consider themselves one nation.
