Peoples & MigrationThe 3rd century BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 3rd century BCE

One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 3rd century BCE, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
1
Nations
1
Earliest
300 BCE
Latest
300 BCE

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

  1. c. 1st millennium BCE — Africa:

    Gabon

    Bantu farmers and ironworkers arrive

    Bantu-speaking peoples moved into the region from the north, bringing farming, pottery and iron-working; the Ogooué valley served as a corridor of the wider Bantu expansion across Central Africa.

    Era: Forest peoples and the Bantu migrations

    Sources: History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Gabon · Wikipedia, Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda · UNESCO World Heritage Centre