Peoples & MigrationThe 10th century BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 10th century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 10th century BCE — 10 of them, drawn from 10 nations, all of it in 1000 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
10
Nations
10
Earliest
1000 BCE
Latest
1000 BCE
Oceania
4
Africa
3
South America
2
Asia
1

Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.

  1. c. 1000 BCE — Africa:

    Cameroon

    The Bantu expansion begins

    The Grassfields of the Cameroon-Nigeria borderlands are widely held to lie near the homeland of the Bantu languages, whose speakers spread from this region across central and southern Africa.

    Era: The Sao, the Bantu cradle and Cameroon's early peoples

    Sources: History of Cameroon · Wikipedia, Cameroon (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. c. 1st millennium BCE — Africa:

    Central African Republic

    Ironworking and migration

    Ubangian, Central Sudanic and Bantu-speaking peoples settled the watershed and ironworking spread, laying down the ethnic patchwork of Gbaya, Banda, Zande, Nzakara and others.

    Era: Megaliths and Early Peoples

    Sources: History of the Central African Republic · Kiddle Encyclopedia, Central African Republic — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. c. 1000 BCE — Oceania:

    Fiji

    Lapita settlement of Fiji

    Austronesian Lapita voyagers, master navigators with distinctive pottery, reach Fiji by around 1000 BCE, founding the islands' first societies.

    Era: Lapita Voyagers & the Sea-Going Chiefdoms

    Sources: Lapita culture · Encyclopædia Britannica, Fiji — History (Melanesian, Colonialism, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica

  4. 1st millennium BCE — South America:

    Guyana

    Amerindian settlement of the Guianas

    Arawak, Carib and Warrau peoples settle the rivers, coast and highlands of present-day Guyana, developing cassava farming, fishing and riverine trade.

    Era: The First Peoples and the Land of Many Waters

    Sources: Guyana — History (Colonialism, Independence, Culture) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Guyana and Belize: Country Studies · U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division

  5. c. 1000 BCE — Africa:

    Kenya

    Bantu expansion reaches western Kenya

    Iron-using Bantu-speaking farmers spread into western Kenya, part of the wider Bantu expansion that reshaped much of eastern and southern Africa.

    Era: Migrations and the Swahili Coast

    Sources: History of Kenya · Wikipedia, Kenya: People and ethnic groups · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  6. c. 1000 BCE — Oceania:

    New Caledonia

    Lapita settlement of New Caledonia

    Austronesian voyagers of the Lapita culture reached the archipelago, establishing the earliest human presence and leaving the dentate-stamped pottery first studied at the New Caledonian site that gives the culture its name.

    Era: The Lapita and the Kanak

    Sources: Lapita culture · Encyclopaedia Britannica, New Caledonia · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  7. c. 1000 BCE — Oceania:

    Solomon Islands

    Arrival of the Lapita

    Austronesian-speaking Lapita voyagers, ancestors of much of the later Pacific, settle the islands and mix with existing populations.

    Era: Settlement of a Thousand Tongues

    Sources: History of Solomon Islands · Encyclopædia Britannica, Lapita Culture and the Arrival of Asians in the Pacific · Facts and Details (Islands & Oceania)

  8. c. 11th–8th centuries BCE — Asia:

    Syria

    The Aramaeans and Aram-Damascus

    Aramaean tribes settle Syria and make Damascus the capital of a powerful kingdom; their Aramaic language becomes the lingua franca of the Near East for over a millennium.

    Era: Aramaeans, Rome and the Glory of Palmyra

    Sources: Aramaean — ancient Middle Eastern people · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Damascus — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  9. c. 1300–1000 BCE — Oceania:

    Vanuatu

    Lapita seafarers settle the archipelago

    Austronesian voyagers of the Lapita culture reached northern Vanuatu, carrying their distinctive pottery, crops and animals on one of history's great oceanic migrations.

    Era: Lapita Seafarers and Chief Roi Mata

    Sources: Vanuatu — History (Melanesian, Colonization, Independence) · Encyclopædia Britannica, The Teouma Lapita site and the early human settlement of the Pacific Islands · Australian National University (Open Research Repository), Lapita cemetery in Vanuatu helps solve an ancient mystery · Australian Academy of the Humanities

  10. by c. 1000 BCE — South America:

    Venezuela

    Indigenous peoples of coast, plains and Andes

    Carib and Arawak peoples settle the Caribbean coast and the Orinoco basin, while the Timoto-Cuica farm the western Andes, long before European contact.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples and the Encounter of 1498

    Sources: Venezuela: A Country Study · U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, Venezuela · Encyclopaedia Britannica