Chimú culture Expansion What city did the Chimu expand their territory in? conquering the head of the valley of Chimor and the neighboring valleys of Sana, Pacasmayo, Chicama, Viru, Chao and Santa." What sort of terrain did the Chimu live on? At its peak, the Chimu advanced to the limits of the desert coast to the valley Was it difficult for them to find food? I don't know. Did they have to use force in order to expand? Guacri-caur, conquered the lower part of the valley What happened to the conquered after the lower part of the valley was taken? "may have pushed the imperial frontiers to Jequetepeque and to Santa, but conquest of the entire region was an agglutinative process initiated by earlier rulers." ( What sort of weapons were used during the expansion? I don't know.
What was day to day life like in the desert coast?
What was Chimu's day to day life like in the desert coast?
The mature Chimu culture developed in roughly the same territory where the Mochica had existed centuries before. The Chimu was also a coastal culture. It was developed in the Moche Valley north of present-day Lima, northeast of Huarmey, and finishing in central present-day Trujillo. Later, it expanded to Arequipa.  The Chimu appeared in the year 900: Chimor, also known as the Kingdom of Chimor, had its capital "at the great site now called Chanchan, between Trujillo and the sea, and we may assume that Taycanamo founded his kingdom there. His son, Guacri-caur, conquered the lower part of the valley and was succeeded by a son named Nancen-pinco who really laid the foundations of the Kingdom by conquering the head of the valley of Chimor and the neighboring valleys of Sana, Pacasmayo, Chicama, Viru, Chao and Santa."  The estimated founding date of the last Chimu kingdom is in the first half of the 14th century. Nacen-pinco was believed to have ruled around 1370 and was followed by seven rulers whose names are not yet known. Minchancaman followed these rulers, and was ruling around the time of the Inca conquest (between 1462 and 1470). This great expansion is believed to have occurred during the late period of Chimu civilization, called: Late Chimu, but the development of the Chimu territory spanned a number of phases and more than a single generation. Nacen-pinco, "may have pushed the imperial frontiers to Jequetepeque and to Santa, but conquest of the entire region was an agglutinative process initiated by earlier rulers." (17)  The Chimu expanded to include a vast area and many different ethnic groups. At its peak, the Chimu advanced to the limits of the desert coast to the valley of the Jequetepeque River in the north. Pampa Grande in the Lambayeque Valley was also ruled by the Chimu.  To the south, they expanded as far as Carabayallo. Their expansion southward was stopped by the military power of the great valley of Lima. Historians and archeologists contest how far south they managed to expand. CANNOTANSWER
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Apollo the Shepherd was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived around the 4th century in the desert of Lower Egypt. He was one of the Desert Fathers.

Legend
Apollo was initially a shepherd. He is said to have killed his pregnant wife and unborn child when he was curious to see what the unborn fetus would have looked like. When they died, he repented and became a monk. According to the Ethiopian Synaxarion, he lived deep in the interior of the desert for 14 years. After the 14 years were over, an angel took him to meet one of the Desert Fathers, who told him that his sins had been forgiven. The father gave the Eucharist to Apollo, who then died in the father's arms and ascended to heaven.

Feast day
Apollo is venerated as a saint by the Coptic Orthodox Church. In the Coptic calendar, his feast day is the 5th day of Meshir (or Amshir in Arabic), which is the same feast day as that of Saint Apollo of Bawit.

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4th-century births
Egyptian Christian monks
Saints from Roman Egypt
Coptic Orthodox saints
Desert Fathers
Egyptian hermits When Desert County, Utah Territory was created March 3, 1852 it extended into present-day Nevada from the shore of the Great Salt Lake on the east to the western edge of the Great Basin in California between Weber and Tooele counties in Utah Territory.

On January 5, 1856 Desert County was reduced significantly, and former Desert County land in present-day Nevada was used to form part of three new Utah Territory counties: Carson, Humboldt, and Saint Mary's. Desert County was extinguished on January 17, 1862 and her remaining land was split between Box Elder and Tooele counties.

For records of Desert County in what is present-day Nevada, see:

Nevada State Archives. 
Utah State Archives may have a few records from the Utah Territory Desert County courts and deeds.

Some records for old Desert County, Utah Territory may have been transferred to, or may have been re-recorded in the new counties formed from the old Desert County. See also:

Carson County, Utah Territory 
Humboldt County, Utah Territory (not to be confused with Humboldt County, Nevada)
Saint Mary's County, Utah Territory

For records of Desert County in what is present-day Utah, see:

Box Elder County, Utah 
Tooele County, Utah

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Former counties of Utah
Geography of Box Elder County, Utah
Geography of Tooele County, Utah Tawam (), also Tuwwam, Tu'am, or "Al-Buraimi Oasis" (), is a historical oasis region in Eastern Arabia that stretched from, or was located between, the Western Hajar Mountains to the Persian Gulf coast, nowadays forming parts of what is now the United Arab Emirates and western Oman. It is marked by the twin settlements of Al Ain and Al-Buraimi on the UAE-Omani border.

Etymology and geography 

Al-Ain is main settlement in the Eastern Region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, located on the country's eastern border with Oman, where the adjacent town of Al-Buraimi is located. The region is located to the west of the Western Hajar Mountains and the Gulf of Oman, and in the vicinity of the Rub' al-Khali Desert. On the coast of the Arabian or Persian Gulf lies Jumayra in the Emirate of Dubai, which was probably part of this region.

The word 'Tawam' means 'twins', and it reportedly refers to a pair of alfaj (water channels) in the Buraimi region, as identified from the works of people like Salil ibn Raziq in the 19th century, Al-Tabari and Al-Muqaddasi in the 10th century, and consequently people in the 21st century like Timothy Power, an archaeologist and assistant-professor based in Abu Dhabi who helped to found the Buraimi Oasis Landscape Archaeology Project. That said, the region is composed of oases which depended on alfaj for irrigation, such as those of Al-Ain and Qattarah in Al-Ain, and Hamasa in Al-Buraimi.

History and prehistory 

Archaeological remains dating to the Bronze Age and beyond, like at Al-Rumailah, Hili and Jebel Hafeet, have been found in this region. In ancient times, the region was reportedly used by Arabs as a place of gathering, and like Dibba, it was taxed by Al-Julanda, who were clients of the Sasanians, who reported to the Persian marzban (military governor), who was based at Al-Rustaq in what is now Oman.

Like Dibba and present-day Ras Al Khaimah, the region witnessed events relevant to the history of Islam during the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid eras.

Around the Islamic Golden Age in the Middle Ages, the region, with its capital at 'Tawam', was an important sphere of influence for Arabs. Ceramics and other materials found here were believed to have been imported from Mesopotamia, India and China. At this time, Sohar, located to the east of this region, was of such prominence as a trading port on the coast of the Gulf of Oman that it was considered to be the "Dubai or Singapore of its day". A mosque, considered to be the oldest in the country, was found in the vicinity of the Sheikh Khalifa Mosque in Al-Ain by Dr Walid Al Tikriti, besides a falaj, a group of houses, and a village dating to the 9th or 10th century.

Being strategically located near the Western Hajar, the area was an important stop for people and caravans traveling between the mountains and other parts of Arabia, such as Al-Hasa. Not only was the area, being rich in date palms, important for trade, but it was also used by certain people for smuggling slaves, women or children, years before the foundation of the UAE.

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Tawam, Eastern Arabia