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