This creates a spiral of urbanization. As more nomadic families leave the countryside and gather in mining towns and cities, pollution increases thereby worsening and increasing the frequency of hard winters, forcing more families to trade their herds for mining or manufacturing jobs.<\/p>\n
Mongolian boys participate in the horse race portion of Naadam, a traditional holiday that celebrates the Mongols’ nomadic roots.<\/p><\/div>\n
Without intervention, urbanization could potentially lead to the disappearance of the nomadic traditions that have inhabited and characterized the region for over one thousand years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Traveling outside of Mongolia\u2019s only major city, Ulaanbaatar, can seem like traveling back in time 800 years. Among the hundreds of miles of rolling hills in which you would be hard pressed to find any permanent, man-made structure, you half expect to see Genghis Khan\u2019s enormous army thunder down a hill aboard hardy little ponies. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":804,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/804"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/j469.ascjclass.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}