HIST 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: San People, Swapo, Kingdom Of Mapungubwe
15 Sep 2016
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Bantu languages originate in the cameroon grasslands of w. africa technologies such as iron working and pottery spread separately. 3000bc-500ad) people moving into equatorial rainforest, where the pygmy people spoke bantu. 0ad-750ishad) cattle settlement (north to south migration) into south africa. Bushmen still exist, to a substantially lesser extent, hunting/gathering. 800ad) bantu languages split to shona and s. african languages, 1000ad) cattle farming is predominant method of life, city of mapungubwe. Bantu is a language group, studied by how people speak now, and comparing different vocabularies and lexicons, and therefore forming hypotheses. Before bushmen were celebrated (in films such as a kalahari family), they were hunted down and killed (18/19c. ). Bushmen today are more civilized, western cloth, but still poor. In swapo, namibia, and other conflicts, bushmen were used as the. The gods must be crazy , highest grossing foreign film in usa, makes bushmen out to be uncivilized and natural . Made by apartheid propagandist, making fun of a.
