Peoples & MigrationThe 4th century

Peoples & Migration in the 4th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 4th century — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 300. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
300
Latest
300

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

  1. Africa

    South Africa

    Bantu-speaking farmers spread south

    Bantu-speaking communities bringing iron-working, cattle and cultivated crops settled the eastern half of southern Africa, ancestors of the region's Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Venda and Tsonga peoples.

    Era: Early peoples: San, Khoekhoe and the Bantu-speaking kingdoms

    Sources: South Africa (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Cradle of Humankind · South African History Online

  2. Africa

    Zambia

    Bantu farmers settle the plateau

    Bantu-speaking migrants bringing iron-working, cattle, and agriculture spread across the region over the first millennium CE, gradually settling land held by Khoisan and Batwa hunter-gatherers.

    Era: Iron Age farmers and the Bantu migrations

    Sources: History of Zambia · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Zambia · Wikipedia