movement of people 3.1
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Movement of People in the Post-Classical Era
Guiding Question
What were the effects of migration in the post-classical era?
Focus Questions
What basic understandings of environment and technology did post-classical traders needto conduct their business?
What were the environmental effects of migration in the post-classical era?
What were the linguistic effects of migration in the post-classical era?
Vikings
● North Atlantic● Used longships to
travel in the Ocean and into riverways, however shallow
● Raided villages and cities with switch retreat
Arabs / Berbers
● Sahara● Used camel
caravan to navigate the Trans-Saharan routes
Nomads
● Central Asia● Pastoralists used
horses to travel the steppe
● Mongols, Huns (formally Xiongnu)
Focus Question
What were the environmental effects of migration in the post-classical era?
The migration of Bantu-speaking peoples who facilitated transmission of iron technologies and agricultural techniques in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The maritime migrations of the Polynesian peoples who cultivated transplanted foods and domesticated animals as they moved to new islands
Some migrations had a significant environmental impact: Bantu
● Originally from West Africa
● Farmed along rivers in rainforest
● Moved south as population grew
● Others settled in grassy west coast of southern Africa where the land was suitable for herding sheep, goats, cattle
Some migrations had a significant environmental impact: Polynesian
Focus Question
What were the linguistic effects of migration in the post-classical era?
Some migrations and commercial contacts led to the diffusion oflanguages (spread of Bantu languages including Swahili, Spread of Turkic and Arabic languages) throughout a new region or the emergence of new languages.
Some contacts led to the diffusion of languages
SwahiliZanzibarMixture of Bantu languages and Arab language
TurkicCentral AsiaBetween 6th and 11th CE, Turks moved west and south into Anatolia and the “Stans”
ArabicArabiaSpread with Muslim conquests during 7th CE