HIST 3410 Lecture Notes - Lake Tanganyika, Saharan Languages, Urewe
1 Dec 2013
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Hist 3410 bantu expansions, in brief october 9 2013. Midterm: two sections, kind of quizzes we have been doing. Section 1: 10 or 20 questions yes or no. The khoisan were the first dwellers of eastern, central and southern africa but they were absorbed, replaced and displaced. As a result of environmental factors, and ability to engage in production as well as an increase in population (why they moved southward etc. : displacing nilo- saharans. 2000 b. c. speakers of nilo- saharan languages reached the great lakes of east africa and later expended. 1000 b. c. the first bantu- speaking started moving east and southeast into the area west of the great lakes. Moved as far south as lake tanganyika and east to lake victoria. They practiced late stone age economy of farming, hunting, and fishing (kept only goats): not iron. Linguistics tells us that they had communities beyond single farms.
