Peoples & MigrationThe 5th century BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 5th century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 5th century BCE — 4 of them, drawn from 4 nations, all of it in 500 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
4
Nations
4
Earliest
500 BCE
Latest
500 BCE
Africa
3
Oceania
1

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

  1. 1st millennium BCEAfrica

    Namibia

    Khoekhoe and Damara herders

    Khoekhoe pastoralists, including the Nama, and the Damara established themselves across central and southern Namibia, herding cattle and sheep and speaking Khoekhoe click languages.

    Era: First peoples: the San, Khoekhoe, Damara and the engravings of Twyfelfontein

    Sources: Namibia (country, history and government) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, History of Namibia · Wikipedia

  2. 1st millennium BCE onwardOceania

    New Caledonia

    Emergence of the Kanak

    Successive waves of Melanesian migrants intermarried with the Lapita settlers, giving rise to the Kanak, the Melanesian people indigenous to New Caledonia, with a clan-based society organised around chiefs, yam cultivation and ancestral land.

    Era: The Lapita and the Kanak

    Sources: New Caledonia — History · Encyclopaedia Britannica, New Caledonia · Encyclopaedia Britannica

  3. late 1st millennium BCEAfrica

    Tanzania

    Bantu farmers reach the coast

    Iron-using Bantu-speaking farmers settle the Tanzanian coast and interior, part of the wider Bantu expansion that reshaped eastern and southern Africa.

    Era: Bantu Settlers and the Swahili Coast

    Sources: History of Tanzania · Wikipedia, Swahili language · Wikipedia

  4. c. 1st millennium BCEAfrica

    Uganda

    Bantu farmers settle the lakes region

    Iron-using Bantu-speaking agriculturalists spread into the interlacustrine region north and west of Lake Victoria, establishing the banana-farming societies that underlie the later kingdoms.

    Era: Peoples and the Great Lakes Kingdoms

    Sources: History of Uganda · Wikipedia, Uganda: Bunyoro and Buganda · Encyclopaedia Britannica