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African Migration Causes and Effects: Bantu Movement and Cultural Change

Explore the reasons behind African migration and its impact on culture through the Bantu-speaking people's historical movement. Discover how factors like population increase, climate change, and cultural interactions shape the modern world.

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African Migration Causes and Effects: Bantu Movement and Cultural Change

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  1. Essential Question: What are the causes and effects of African migration? Do Now: Give three reasons why you would move to another city?

  2. Vocabulary • Migration: a permanent move from one country or region to another. • Push-pull factors: These factors can push people out of an area or pull them to move to a different place. • Bantu-speaking people: Small groups of people who for about 1500 years moved southward to different places in Africa. They spread their language and culture.

  3. Migration • Cultural Interaction (effects of migration on the African culture) • Relocation of large numbers of Bantu-speaking people brings cultural diffusion and change to southern Africa • Migration continues to shape the modern world

  4. Bantu Migration

  5. Causes of Migration • Population increased because of farming • They went south because to the north was the Sahara • They needed more land for farming. • Climate change (became too hot…so they moved) • Disagreements between people

  6. Effects of Migration • The Bantu interacted with other people they met spreading their culture, language and technology (iron-making and woodworking) • They intermarried with other tribes • They exchanged culture and ideas • The Bantu migration was a unifying force for the continent of Africa.

  7. Movement of People

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