4.3.1 Africa to 1500 – identify the Bantu migration patterns and describe their contributions to agriculture, technology and language
30% of Present Day African-American's Genome Come from the Bantu People-ScienceDaily.com
The Bantu expansion was a long process of multiple human migrations. The Bantu Migration had an enormous impact on Africa’s economic, cultural, and political practices. Bantu migrants introduced many new skills into the communities they interacted with, including sophisticated farming and industry. These skills included growing crops and forging tools and weapons from metal.
These skills allowed Africans to cultivate new areas of land that had a wide variety of physical and climatic features. Many hunter-gatherer communities were assimilated, or adopted, into the more technologically advanced Bantu culture. In turn, Bantu people adopted skills from the communities they encountered, including animal husbandry, or raising animals for food.
This exchange of skills and ideas greatly advanced Africa’s cultural landscape, especially in the eastern, central, and southern regions of the continent. Today, most of the population living in these regions is descended from Bantu migrants or from mixed Bantu-indigenous origins
These skills allowed Africans to cultivate new areas of land that had a wide variety of physical and climatic features. Many hunter-gatherer communities were assimilated, or adopted, into the more technologically advanced Bantu culture. In turn, Bantu people adopted skills from the communities they encountered, including animal husbandry, or raising animals for food.
This exchange of skills and ideas greatly advanced Africa’s cultural landscape, especially in the eastern, central, and southern regions of the continent. Today, most of the population living in these regions is descended from Bantu migrants or from mixed Bantu-indigenous origins
Bantu Language Legacy Video
1. What evidence is there that the Bantu language influenced modern African languages? 2. Where did Bantu originate? 3. How long ago did Bantu tribes begin to spread? |
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Bantu Society
- What led to the migration of the Bantu tribes?
- What were some advantages to the iron age culture the Bantu spread across Africa?
- How were chiefdoms based, what determined who was important?
- What did the development of metalwork skills promote?
The Bantu Help Cause Deforestation
- What two Bantu practices contributed to massive deforestation?
- Do you think the deforestation taking place influenced the Bantu migration into other parts of Africa, why?
People on the Move
- What was a likely reason that the Bantu people moved?
- How do most historians describe the process of migration? Did the Bantu move in large groups or in small groups?
- What are three examples of evidence for the Bantu migration, proving it indeed happened?