Peoples & MigrationThe 1st century

Peoples & Migration in the 1st century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1st century — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, all of it in 1. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
3
Nations
3
Earliest
1
Latest
1
Africa
2
South America
1

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

  1. Africa

    Botswana

    Herders and farmers arrive

    Peoples bringing cattle, sheep and pottery move into present-day Botswana, beginning the long shift from hunter-gathering toward herding and farming societies.

    Era: Hunters, Herders and the Painted Hills

    Sources: History of Botswana · Wikipedia, Botswana — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  2. South America

    Brazil

    Tupi-Guarani expansion

    Tupi-Guarani-speaking peoples spread across the Atlantic coast and into the interior, developing the farming and village societies later encountered by Europeans.

    Era: Indigenous Peoples Before Contact

    Sources: Brazil · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. Africa

    Malawi

    Bantu-speaking farmers settle the plateau

    Bantu-speaking peoples moved into the Lake Malawi region during the early centuries of the Common Era, introducing ironworking and settled agriculture and absorbing or displacing earlier hunter-gatherer communities.

    Era: Bantu farmers and the rock-painters of Chongoni

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