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Module 12 Lesson 2
Migration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is migration? | Migration is a permanent or semipermanent move from one country or region to another. |
| What are the three categories of the causes of migration? | The three categories of the causes of migration are environmental, economic, and political. |
| What kind of effects can occur in an area of migration? | Positive and negative effects can occur in an area of migration. |
| What are push-pull factors? | Push factors-climate changes, exhausted resources, earthquakes, volcanoes, drought/famine, unemployment, slavery, religious, ethnic, political persecution. Pull factors-abundant land, new resources, good climate, employment, political/religious freedom. |
| Who were the Bantu-speaking people? | The Bantu-speaking people were speakers in a related group of languages who migrated from West Africa into the majority of the Southern half of Africa. |
| What was one of the causes for the Bantu-speaking people to migrate every couple of years? | One cause for the Bantu-speaking people to migrate every couple of years was because of their farming method which was to slash and burn. |
| Why did the Bantu-speaking people avoid migrating West and North? | The Bantu-speaking people avoided migrating West and North because they needed to avoid the Sahara desert because it would make it very difficult for them to survive. |
| Why did Bantu-speaking people win wars during their migrations? | Bantu-speaking people won wars during their migrations because they used iron weapons created by themselves while others were only armed with stone weapons. |
| What part of Africa did the Bantu-speaking people dominate when they had finished migrating? | When the Bantu-speaking people had finished migrating, they dominated to the southern half of Africa. |
| What changes occured when the Bantu-speakers settled into an area? | When the Bantu-speakers settled into an area, the lands they occupied were not always unpopulated, some areas into which the Bantu moved were populated with people like the Mbuti and the San and they were not Bantu-speakers and were hunter-gatherers. |