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Lesson 2: Migration
Migration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Migration mean? | the act of moving from one place to settle in another. |
| What were the three categories that caused migrations? | environmental, economic, and political |
| What is push-pull factors? | conditions that draw people to another location (pull factors) or cause people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region (push factors). |
| How did experts trace the patterns of movement of people over time? | by studying the spread of languages |
| What people made some of the greatest migrations in history? | the Early Africans |
| Where did the Bantu-speaking people originally live? | The Bantu-speaking peoples originally lived in the savanna south of the Sahara, in the area that is now southeastern Nigeria |
| When did Migration begin? | at least 2,000 years ago or earlier |
| What was one new crop that the Bantu-speaking people learned to cultivate? | the banana |
| What usually happened when the Bantu speakers spread south into hunter-gatherers’ land? | territorial wars usually broke out |
| Where are the Mbuti now? | the Mbuti are confined to a corner of the Congo Basin |