Peoples & MigrationThe 13th century

Peoples & Migration in the 13th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 13th century — 6 of them, drawn from 6 nations, running from 1200 to 1250. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
6
Nations
6
Earliest
1200
Latest
1250
Africa
3
North America
2
Asia
1

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

  1. Africa

    Equatorial Guinea

    Bubi settle Bioko

    Bantu-speaking peoples, ancestors of the Bubi, are held to have crossed from the mainland to the island later called Fernando Pó (Bioko) in successive waves, settling an island that earlier held Neolithic populations and developing a distinct island society.

    Era: Peoples of the island and the mainland

    Sources: History of Equatorial Guinea · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Equatorial Guinea · Wikipedia, Equatorial Guinea · New World Encyclopedia

  2. North America

    Honduras

    Copán abandoned

    After centuries of decline the Maya completely abandon Copán, leaving its monuments to the forest.

    Era: Copán and the First Peoples

    Sources: Copán · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Africa

    Mauritania

    Beni Hassan Arab migration

    Waves of Banu Maqil Arabs, including the Beni Hassan, migrate south into the western Sahara, spreading Hassaniya Arabic and gradually transforming the region's Berber society.

    Era: Arab Migration, the Char Bouba War and the Caravan Ksour

    Sources: Beni Ḥassān · Wikipedia, History of Mauritania · Wikipedia, Mauritania · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  4. Asia

    Sri Lanka

    Decline and the drift southward

    Invasion, the breakdown of the dry-zone irrigation system and disease lead to the abandonment of the northern capitals and the migration of Sinhalese power toward the south-west and the Kandyan hills.

    Era: Polonnaruwa and the Move South

    Sources: Sri Lanka: History · Encyclopædia Britannica

  5. Africa

    Togo

    Ewe ancestors present in the region

    By oral tradition and scholarly reconstruction, the ancestors of the Ewe had moved into the Togo–Ghana region from the east, settling around Tado and later the town of Notsé before their dispersal.

    Era: Peoples, migrations and the land

    Sources: Exodus of the Ewe from Notsé · Wikipedia, Togo (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Togo · Wikipedia

  6. North America

    Greenland

    Arrival of the Thule

    The Thule people migrated eastward from Alaska with dog sleds, kayaks and whale-hunting technology, settling Greenland's coasts and becoming the direct ancestors of the modern Kalaallit (Greenlandic Inuit).

    Era: The First Peoples: Saqqaq, Dorset and Thule

    Sources: Greenland: History · Encyclopædia Britannica, Aasivissuit–Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea · UNESCO World Heritage Centre