Peoples & MigrationThe 8th century BCE

Peoples & Migration in the 8th century BCE

Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 8th century BCE — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 800 BCE to 740 BCE. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.

Events
2
Nations
2
Earliest
800 BCE
Latest
740 BCE
Europe
1
North America
1

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

  1. c. 800 BCENorth America

    Greenland

    The Dorset (Tuniit) culture

    The Dorset Paleo-Inuit, expert sea-mammal hunters known for their carved art, followed the Saqqaq and occupied Greenland's coasts through the long pre-Thule centuries.

    Era: The First Peoples: Saqqaq, Dorset and Thule

    Sources: Aasivissuit–Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea · UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Greenland: History · Encyclopædia Britannica

  2. c. 8th century BCEEurope

    Italy

    Greek colonies of Magna Graecia

    From around the 8th century BCE Greek city-states founded colonies across southern Italy and Sicily, from Cumae to Tarentum, creating the prosperous Hellenic world of Magna Graecia.

    Era: Italic Peoples and the Rise of Rome

    Sources: Magna Graecia · World History Encyclopedia, Ancient Italic people (Etruscans, Latins, Samnites) · Encyclopaedia Britannica