2. BANTU MIGRATION
• Group of people located in the • Forced to migrate south
savanna of Africa • Why: population increased
• Shared a common language no more land therefore
cultural characteristics migrated south to more
• Were farmers and herders land
• Slash and burn farming • Culture diffusion will take
technique caused them to place
move • Iron smelting
• Push-pull factors will cause • Effects of migration
Bantu to migrate • Drove other groups off
• Climate land
• Food • New culture created
• land
4. Push Migration Pull
Examples Factors Examples
Climate
changes, exhausted
Abundant land, new
resources, earthquakes, Environmental
resources, good climate
volcanoes, drought/fami
ne
Employment
Unemployment, slavery Economic
opportunities
Religious, ethnic, or Political and/or religious
Political
political persecution, war freedom
5.
6. EFFECTS OF MIGRATION
• Redistribution of the population may change population
density
• Cultural blending of languages or ways of life may occur
• Ideas and technology may be shared
• People’s quality of life may be improved as a result of moving
• Clashes between groups may create unrest, persecution, or
even war
• Environmental conditions may change, causing famine or
depleted natural resources
• Employment opportunities may dry up, creating
unemployment or poverty
7. TRACING MIGRATION THROUGH LANGUAGE
• If 2 languages have similar words
for 1 object, those people probably
had close contact with one another
• Niger-Congo Region includes 900
individual languages
• These come from the Proto-Bantu
language
• Spread from Migration
• Bantu Speakers live from:
• South of the Sahara to tip of Africa
• 1st language of 1/3 of all Africans
