HIST 1001 Chapter : Bantu Indo European Migrations
Document Summary
"bantu" refers to a linguistic group, group of people who all spoke same language. Clan-based villages headed by chiefs who conducted religious ceremonies. Populated entire coast of east africa, through desert, to modern country of south africa. Not mass migrations; no one knows why migrations took place but maybe because of population pressures. Scholars believe it was an incremental process of migration b/ of alll the dialects. They came into contact with fully urbanized societies. Important difference because they were able to learn certain things from them. Difference b/w bantu & ie migrations: mantu met hunter/gathererts, i. e. met urbanized cities. Interaction and mingling of the two have preset day influences. Early aryans had no writing system when they invaded, just memorized them in sanscrips, vedas are most important. But it was possible to go up in caste: aryan religion & the blending w/ dravidian religious/cultural values, upanishads-most important written towards end of vedic age (800-400.
