Bantu languages

Bantu The word ‘Bantu” which means people in many Bantu languages, refers to a group of about five hundred African languages and to their speakers, today numbering ninety million. The Bantu people of Sub-Saharan Africa, lived about one thousand CE. They shifted from hunting and gathering to settle agriculture about four thousand years ago. The Bantu people traveled in to West Africa and Southward into the present day Congo. As the Bantu people migrated evidence shows that they absorbed most of

examining the people of ancient Africa, historians identified the fact that many groups migrated throughout the continent. It became evident that the different societies had some similarities and influences from one another. The Bantu people shared a common foundational language, which was a main factor in their expansion to the west as well as the south. In the northern part of the continent there was a colonial powerhouse forming. The Egyptian empire migrated along the Nile River in search for trade

1. Yali’s question is “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” In a broader sense, why did some things progress in some areas, but not in others? 2. The first consideration Diamond discusses is that just because something happened and that it would have happened anyway, it does not make the act good or just. The second consideration is that the most powerful region, in this case, western Europe, should

The Bantu migrations had a vast influence on the development of Africa. The Bantu peoples passed on many concepts to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. Originating from Nigeria in the Niger River Valley, the Bantu migrated south and then spread to both the east and west. The Bantu laid the foundation for Sub-Saharan African societies. They spread agriculture, animal domestication, iron metallurgy, and cultural development throughout southern Africa. Various forms of government have developed as a result

many types of relationships and how those relationships have reduced certain risks, or introduced new risks. Many researchers have tried to consider the uniqueness of the common examples that have been accented in anthropological research, like the Bantu people and the Basarwa people that Elizabeth Cashdan (1985) discusses. Although not all researchers have been as successful in identifying risk reduction reciprocity model in cross-cultural examples, such as Bliege Bird et. al. (2002), which proposed

The Bantu migration is the dispersal of the Bantu people from the region of Cameroon and the Congo area. The word “Bantu” does not refer to the people of the African expansion, but rather the African languages belonging to the people in the Niger Congo. Cultural influences that occurred, due to the migration of the Bantu people, laid out the foundation for other Sub-Saharan societies. Historians have used the collective information found by archeologists and other historians in order to draw conclusions

The written texts and journals of travelers such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Xuangzang exhibit the information societies had of each other. Trade helped diffused literary, artistic, and cultural practices. Languages like Swahili formed in Africa. Islamic leverage in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa changed the views and traditions that took place. Religious beliefs of Buddhism and Hinduism also impacted Southeast Asia, while Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism

Facilitating and inhibiting factors in learning a language in second language contexts Despite a marked difference in terms of their level of proficiency in English, Rodi and Liam managed to develop the same level of proficiency (high level of proficiency) in using Indonesian language. From their reports, summarised in Table 1 above, it is quite obvious to see that social contexts where the language is learned constitutes a very important factor that helped both learners develop their proficiency

most unpredictable… continent.” In Chapter 16, “How China Became Chinese,” Diamond explains “all but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups… The great

John T. Genovese Dr. Andrews AP World History II, Period 7, August 20151 In Chapter 15, “Yali’s People,” of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, the author explains that although Native Australians showed a head start with some early technology, they were soon conquered by Europe. Diamond goes on to explain why and how Australia and New Guinea became to be seen as “backward” states. Diamond explains that although there was a rise in population due to the development