HIST 1001 Chapter : Bantu And IE Migrations
Document Summary
Bantu and indo-european migrations: bantu migrations, overview. Bantu language family most influential ppl knew how to speak bantu language. Course and chronology of migrations around same time other places getting started, slowly started spreading into forests of e africa usually followed river systems like zambezi, eventually populated entire coast of. Bantus moved in small grps not large conquering armies best ex of cultural blending- acculturation- took place in terms of religion- believed that bantu speakers held monotheistic beliefts since 3500 bce- Difference bn bantu and ie migrations: examples of ie migrations, vedic age india (1500-500 bce) Ie farmers refer to themselves as aryans (noble ppl) settled among and intermarried with locals (those leftover from harappan soc) dravidians most spoke one form or another of dravidian language. The vedas and the vedic age early aryans had no writing system of their own- memorized literary works- transferred from one generation to another in sanskrit.
