Peoples & MigrationThe 6th century

Peoples & Migration in the 6th century

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 6th century — 5 of them, drawn from 5 nations, running from 500 to 568. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
5
Nations
5
Earliest
500
Latest
568
Africa
3
Asia
1
Europe
1

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

  1. Africa

    Congo

    Bantu peoples settle the region

    Bantu-speaking farmers and ironworkers settled the forests and savannas of the modern Congo over the first millennium CE, founding the Kongo, Teke, Vili, Mboshi and other communities that make up the country's peoples.

    Era: Bantu peoples, Loango, and the Teke kingdom

    Sources: Congo-Brazzaville — Early History · GlobalSecurity.org, Republic of the Congo · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of the Republic of the Congo · Wikipedia

  2. Africa

    Madagascar

    Austronesian settlement of Madagascar

    Seafarers from the Borneo region cross the Indian Ocean and become the island's first lasting inhabitants.

    Era: Settlement & the Making of the Malagasy

    Sources: Madagascar · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Madagascar · Wikipedia, Malagasy peoples · Wikipedia

  3. Africa

    Namibia

    Bantu-speaking peoples settle the north

    Over the past fifteen hundred years Bantu-speaking Ovambo, Kavango and Herero peoples migrated into the north and centre, bringing iron-working, agriculture and cattle pastoralism.

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

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

  4. Asia

    Kazakhstan

    Turkic khaganates dominate the steppe

    Turkic-speaking confederations, beginning with the Türk (Göktürk) Khaganate and later the Karakhanids, take control of the region; Zhetysu becomes a heartland of the Western Turkic realm, fixing the Turkic language and spreading Islam.

    Era: The Saka and the Turkic Steppe

    Sources: History of Kazakhstan · Encyclopædia Britannica, Kazakhstan · Encyclopædia Britannica

  5. Europe

    Italy

    Lombard invasion of Italy

    The Lombards swept into Italy, fragmenting the peninsula into a patchwork of Lombard duchies and Byzantine territories and shaping its long political division.

    Era: Medieval Italy: Papacy, Communes and Normans

    Sources: Italy (country overview and history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica