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

2. Migration Cultural Interaction
Relocation of large numbers of Bantu-speaking people brings cultural diffusion and change to southern Africa
Migration continues to shape the modern world

3. 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.

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.
They brought the technology of iron making, woodworking
They were able to migrate as far as South Africa.

6. Movement of People

7. Effects of Migration
The Bantu interacted with other people they met spreading their culture, language and technology.
The intermarried with other tribes
They exchanged culture and ideas
The Bantu migration was a unifying force for the continent of Africa.

8. Human Family tree

9. Case Study: Bantu Migration
Bantu-speaking peoples adapted their skills to new environments they encountered in their migrations southward.
How did they change their farming in the rain forests?
Why was the change necessary?
How did they change their techniques for herding in the savannas?
b. Why did they make the change
Some of their adaptations caused them to continue their migrations to new places. Why?

10. Bantu Migration
The migration of the Bantu-speaking peoples helped to shape the cultures of the African continent.
Why did the Bantu peoples move southward, rather than to the north?
b. What happened to the non-Bantu hunter-gather societies as the newcomers spread south?
How did the Bantu speakers relate to the people they did not drive out?
b. What were some results of their intermingling?
How did the Bantu Speakers help unify the various peoples of Africa?