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To wrap up today, one last deconstruction of older historical myths:
In older Eurocentric historiography the Bantu Expansion was held as a kind of proto-colonialist narrative, a weaponization of the idea of African migrations and establishing iron-wielding Bantu peoples as the prototypes of later Boer, Briton, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese ,and what have you. In particular in South Africa it became solidly interwoven with the myth of the Mfecane, and the ways in which the Boer and the Briton justified their own conquest by disclaiming the longevity of the people already there in that land.
In reality new histories have shown at least two such waves and that the Bantu were not a monolithic great horde of iron-wielding proto-imperialists. As a change in African history this is on par with the rewriting of European history to fully include Slavic and Byzantine history instead of leaving them European when it suits a point and Asian otherwise. It presents a further expansion, as well, of a human element that Eurocentrism has often denied African history as well as a condescending view that it's not a 'real' set of history in a fashion very like the treatment of Oceania, Australia, and the Americas prior to European colonialism.
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Whereas most major human expansions involved latitudinal movements and hence went through regions with similar climatic conditions 20,21, the expansion of BSP is notable for largely being longitudinal with movements through regions with very different climatic conditions, encompassing a wide range of biomes. For example, the putative BSP homeland in the highlands of Nigeria and Cameroon differs considerably from the central African rainforest, the African savannas, and the dry conditions of southwestern Africa. Yet, BSP migrated to and settled in all these different habitats and climatic conditions.
Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, et al. in bioRxiv. The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa
Nature has a research briefing of this paper.
Among the many topics I know very little about but find fascinating is the Bantu Expansion. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" is something I constantly have to remind myself. But the diversity of cultures among Bantu language speakers has so intrigued me.
David Graeber's and David Wingrow's book, The Dawn of Everything, expanded the popular imagination of the variety of ways of living, and by extension expanded our ability to imagine possibles. Sometimes it is important to speak about "Africa." But that oversimplification tends to obscure hoe the people of that continent have as John Reader observes "a genius for small societies."
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The Bantu Expansion: A Significant Human Migration
The Bantu migration stands as a fascinating and pivotal chapter in human history, marked by a series of extensive migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group. This expansive movement originated from a central nucleus in what is now Central Africa. The migration’s narrative is not solely supported by historical accounts, but also by a convergence of evidence from various disciplines such…
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#African History#Bantu#Bantu expansion#Bantu People#central Africa#Proto-Bantu-speaking group#shona people#the Congo rainforest
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“Despite the lack of clear evidence and reliable sources, the Bantu expansion remains an important field of study. It not only sheds light on the overarching reasons for human migration, like climate change and population and resource pressures, but also allows for a sociological examination of societal organization, which is incredibly important to study and understand at any given time.”
read the rest here: https://ananyajagoorie.substack.com/p/expansive-expansion?sd=pf
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What’s your favorite sims death? old age i hate when (most) of my sims die 😭
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Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? no
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Which is your favorite EA hair color? the first brown swatch i have a problem
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So I play all of these new Pokemon games as a Black character, because light skinned kids been going on Pokemon adventures for 20 years, it is Black kids' turn. Pokemon Scarlet is my third Black character so far (SunMoon was the first one where I could adjust the skintone, and SwordShield was the second one). And I always want my character to have natural hair. When I started Scarlet there was exactly one even vaguely Black hairstyle option (cornrows). All the other ones, and there is more than ten options, are clearly for straight hair. I am playing the Teal Mask expansion now and acquired the Teal Card that expands hairstyle options. Among the at least six new hairstyles there is one (bantu knots) that is not straight hair. Like there are no curly hair hairstyles at all in this game. When imo they should have all of the various cuts (short, long, medium, undercut, etc) also available in both straight and curly.
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tysm for tagging me @avornalino <33 answers under the cut 🕺
1. What’s your favourite sims death? probably old age? i hate when my sims die lol
2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? i like both! but i'd pick alpha if i had to choose <3
3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? never lol...that's weird
4. Do you use move objects? yes!
5. Favorite mod? literally any and every mod by lumpinou tbh! and the childbirth mod by pandasama!
6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? get to work!
7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing? LIVing!!
8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made? probably jj <33 my bby girl
9. Have you made a simself? yes! right here lol <3
10. What sim traits do you give yourself? i swear i have a different answer every time lol...but rn i'd say music lover, geek and goofball!
11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? the true black !
12. Favorite EA hair? i don't really use any ea hair, but i do love the bantu knots they added!
13. Favorite life stage? i actually really like the child life stage!
14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? i decorate more than i build, so i'd say gameplay lol <3
15. Are you a CC creator? i have made one recolor of a poster that doesn't look very good, but in the future i would like to try to make more!
16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? i interact with people but i'm SHY and bad at talking <33
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18. Do you have any sims merch? i have a little plumbob sticker i got from etsy and i put it on one of my journals! but that's it lol
19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? it's linked in my pinned post but there's nothing on it yet <3
20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing? i started off using no cc, then full alpha, then full mm and now maxis-mix.
21. What’s your Origin ID? it's a secret 🤭
22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? SO MANY! pralinesims, clumsyalienn, obscurus-sims, sims3melancholic...i could go on and on lol
23. How long have you had a simblr? 4 months!
24. How do you edit your pictures? literally the most basic editing in the world...i just mess with contrast, saturation, brightness, etc etc in photopea and then i'm done. gshade saves me a lot of time <3
25. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? something with a lot of apartments! and bands! and new traits!
25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? seasons or growing together <3
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Maps of worldwide human ancestry, by Masaman/Mason S.
Top: diachronic map of human migrations. It’s not the easiest to parse, but it seems to show the Indo-European (blue) and Turkic (purple) expansions from the Eurasian steppe, the Austronesian settlement of the Pacific (red-orange), the waves of peopling of the Americas (magenta), the Bantu expansion into Subsaharan Africa (bright green), the African slave trades (green), the early Islamic conquests (light orange), and European settlement of the Americas, South Africa, and Australasia (blue), among others.
Middle: map of global Y-chromosome haplogroups, a measure of heredity. A section of the Y chromosome is used to draw trees of descendence because unlike most genes, being carried only by males, is not subjected to recombination. (The same is true of mitochondrial DNA, which is transmitted only from mother to child; maps of Y-chromosome haplogroups are easier to find than of mitochondrial haplogroups, but I don’t know why.) Each shade of color corresponds to a particular set of mutations. Note that the map only shows which haplogroup is the most common in a given area, but every population contains a mixture of different haplogroups in different proportions.
Bottom: map of the distribution of human ethnicities. Such divisions are of course always somewhat arbitrary, since ethnic groups can be joined or split according to cultural attitudes, and they tend to overlap and blur at the edges, but these are still nice visualizations of the complexity and diversity of human populations. (I think the photos are from one of those works merging together hundreds of faces from some part of Earth to create the “average” face of that region?)
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SAN PEOPLE: THE WORLD’S MOST ANCIENT RACE/PEOPLE, OUR ANCESTORS.
They predate Christianity and Islam by at least 18,000 years! Why is this not taught in the schools of the world ?
The San 'Bushmen' also known as Khwe, Sho, and Basarwa are the oldest inhabitants of southern Africa, (and are part of the Khoi and San groups), where they have lived for at least 20,000 years. They are hunter-gatherer peoples of southern Africa. Genetic evidence also suggests the San Bushmen are one of the oldest peoples in the world. Their home is in the vast expanse of the Kalahari desert.
They are found in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola, with loosely related groups in Tanzania.
Recorded history also placed them in Lesotho and Mozambique. Rock art and archaeological evidence can place them as far north as Libya, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, with the evidence of legend and racial type suggesting some traces remain.
“Hottentot” (British and South African English) is a derogatory term historically used of the Khoikhoi, the non-Bantu indigenous nomadic pastoralists of South Africa.
The term has also been used to refer to the non-Bantu indigenous population as a whole, now collectively known as the Khoisan. Use of the term is now deprecated and considered offensive, the preferred name for the non-Bantu indigenous people of the Western Cape area being Khoi, Khoikhoi, or Khoisan.
The Khoi people also fought and defeated the British settlers. That’s why the Europeans derogatorily called them “Cannibals”, like they insulted all the native peoples of the world whose land they stole at gunpoint, with the help of the Christian missionaries/Islam and the Bible/Koran.
#BlackHistoryMatters #southafrica #sanpeople #bushmen #sarahhistorichomie
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One of the key points in illustrating how much African history in real terms was dynamic, not static, is the 'Bantu Expansion':
Another recurring motif of history that co-existed with and overlapped with the growth of both Islamic societies and their forcing various changes in African social and military conditions before Europeans did this on an even grander and far more murderous scale is that of the "Bantu Expanson." In itself a mirror to the expansions of Sinitic and Indo-European languages, this brought the particularly West African form of Iron Age agricultural and military aspects across wide swathes of Africa, rewriting its linguistic and cultural maps.
The two poles of much of pre-1500s African history would revolve around dualities of Islamic and to smaller degrees Christian states seeking very aggressively to replace older systems with their own and being completely unscrupulous about wholesale invasion and genocidal massacres to do so if the opportunity permitted, and the emergence of these Bantu states like Great Zimbabwe that had their own further migration aspects.
One of the key elements here is that African history and cultures were not, in fact, static. The Bantu migrations were not, as further history has shown, some Volkerwanderung in Central and Southern Africa with spears, but a slower process that happened in two waves. They did, nonetheless, reflect a continous process of change where a largely Khoisan-speaking Central and Southern Africa was overlaid with newer cultures and both in turn slammed into by first Islamic and then Christian worlds.
Neither the Muslims nor the Christian and secular European writers who succeed them tended to really notice or care about these older histories and both often preferred to present themselves as breaths of fresh air and innovation in older, static worlds. The rhetoric of settler-colonialism in Arabic and in Romance and English writings always tends to blur into itself like this.
The realities behind this and how it was twisted around by European colonialists in particular will come up again with the Mfecane myth and how that was justified by the Boers. But that in turn will not be there for a while as this is still the 700s and that doesn't show up until a thousand years later.
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'Was the Bantu expansion 'settler colonialism'?'
well the bantu expansion maybe didnt happen. but yes, it seems displacement events may have been common throughout history
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Genetic and linguistic data reveal new history of the Bantu people
Researchers used novel computational approaches and data from more than 400 Bantu languages to reconstruct the historic migration routes of the Bantu people. They show that the expansion of the Bantu people happened through the dense central African rainforest, which was previously thought impossible because it would have been difficult for the Bantu people, who had farming technology, to farm there.
Here's the original research article:
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Okay so linguistics questions—I asked someone else this question but I know you’ll give a great answer: you got sent back in time, what language are you documenting?
With the rule that you can’t go to a period without writing. You don’t want to find out that Thoth is not actually an ibis but his head was meant to be a felt tip pen.
Writing needs to exist already? Hmm... California is/was pretty diverse. It might be interesting to document things linguistically as the Spanish came in. How many centuries separate Yokutsan languages, go back to their common ancestor, or before it, if we can cheat and count proto-writing in the middle east as something we could use to document American languages with, going back like 6000 years ago and learning about the Americas might be cool.
Surveying Africa before the Bantu expansion would also be pretty neat, I think. It might also provide a better model of general language shift and change than the ones under mercantilism and liberalism.
Weeb in me wants to figure out what Old Japanese's other vowels were. Maybe document ancient Korean languages a bit better in case the paper trail pointing to Siberia has something interesting. Trade with Austronesian speakers in Japanese has some hints to have been a thing, and documenting an Austronesian substrate would be pretty cool and informative.
The Latin speaker in me also wants to go back and make a bunch of Rosetta stones for Etruscan. We have writing, but it's mostly formulaic and bare enough it's almost impossible to decipher much . A crank linguist I followed for some time was adamant that Aegean (Etruscan, Minoan, and a bunch of pre-PIE Greek, Anatolian, and Dalmatian languages) was a sister clade to PIE. Might be neat to know if possible.
Maybe also doing a survey of Europe shortly after writing to see what's gone or what's surprisingly there already. Guessing that ag brought mostly Vasconic to NW Europe and Aegean to the south, and crown Uralic groups to Central and Eastern Europe, but I could be wrong.
Also like Mi-Ti-an. What was that about? Can I figure it out from the time of the old kingdom? Probably not.
Might be neat to make a rosetta stone with, like, Akkadian and the Indus Valley Civilization.
Documenting Cushitic and Chadic languages better would definitely help my obsession with Proto-Afroasiatic. Bringing them back to an Ancient Egyptian time depth at least would help tremendously with so many questions, it's not even funny.
Really honestly having a modern linguistics approach to anything at a time depth of 6000 years or so would be pretty great. Even if you're saddled with the most "boring" language possible, 6000 years is a lot of time and culture and phenomena that even something completely "uninteresting" would be tremendously interesting.
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Die Stimmen hinter den ikonischen Charakteren Bayek und Aya aus Assassin's Creed: Origins, Abubakar Salim und Alix Wilton Regan, haben ihren Wunsch geäußert, die Geschichten ihrer Charaktere fortzusetzen. Dieses kollektive Verlangen nach einer Fortsetzung wirft ein Schlaglicht auf den tiefgreifenden Einfluss, den das Spiel sowohl auf sein Publikum als auch auf seine Schöpfer hatte.
Abubakar Salims Übergang von der klassischen Ausbildung hin zur Stimme in der Gaming-Welt zeigt die unerwarteten Wege zum Erzählen von Geschichten auf.
Die Darbietung des Duos als Bayek und Aya wurde gelobt, da sie der Assassin's Creed-Reihe Tiefe verlieh.
Trotz des Übergangs zu anderen historischen Schauplätzen fühlen Fans und Salim selbst, dass die Geschichte von Aya und Bayek "unvollendet" bleibt.
Eine neue Hoffnung für die Rückkehr von Bayek und Aya
Abubakar Salim, reflektierend über seinen Weg von der London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art zur Synchronsprecherei, schreibt Videospielen zu, seine Leidenschaft für das Erzählen von Geschichten entfacht zu haben. Seine Rolle als Bayek, eine Figur im Zeitalter des ptolemäischen Ägyptens, zusammen mit Alix Wilton Regans Aya, brachte den Ursprung der Assassin Brotherhood zum Leben. Ihre überzeugenden Darstellungen haben Bayek und Aya zu den beliebtesten Charakteren in der Franchise gemacht.
Ihre Erzählung, tief verwurzelt im reichen Teppich der letzten Tage des alten Ägyptens unter der Herrschaft Kleopatras, war ein Wendepunkt für die Assassin's Creed-Reihe. Doch der Übergang zu neuen Schauplätzen in nachfolgenden Titeln hat viele Fans sehnsüchtig nach einer Fortsetzung der Geschichte von Bayek und Aya gemacht. Salims eigenes Verlangen nach einer Fortsetzung spricht Bände und signalisiert eine unvollendete Reise, die neue historische Horizonte erkunden könnte.
Erkundung antiker Welten
Die weitläufige offene Welt von Assassin's Creed: Origins ermöglichte es den Spielern, sich im alten Ägypten zu verlieren, vom Navigieren auf dem Nil bis zum Erforschen von Pyramiden. Das Spiel führte ein Hit-Box-Kampfsystem, Unterwassererkundungen und eine detailreiche Umgebung voll historischer Intrigen ein. Doch das Ende von Origins, das Bayek und Aya auf getrennten Wegen zeigte, hinterließ viele unbeantwortete Fragen und unerzählte Geschichten.
Salim schlägt das antike Griechenland oder die Römische Republik als mögliche Schauplätze für eine Fortsetzung vor und deutet auf den Reichtum an Geschichten hin, die aus diesen antiken Zivilisationen hervorgehen könnten. Angesichts der Geschichte von Ubisoft, verschiedene Epochen zu erkunden, könnte die Fortsetzung der Geschichte von Bayek und Aya neue Perspektiven auf historische Ereignisse bieten, die für die Lore der Serie entscheidend sind.
Salims weiterführende Vision
Jenseits seiner Rolle in Assassin's Creed hat Salim sich darangemacht, durch Surgent Studios seine eigenen Geschichten zu kreieren. Seine Arbeit an Tales of Kenzera: Zau, inspiriert von der Bantu-Mythologie, spiegelt sein Engagement für Geschichten wider, die persönlich berühren und kulturelle Vielfalt umarmen. Diese Ausdehnung in vielfältige Narrative zeigt das ungenutzte Potenzial von Videospielen als Medium zur Erforschung verschiedener menschlicher Erfahrungen.
Für weitere Einblicke in die Möglichkeit einer Fortsetzung von "Assassin's Creed Origins" und das expansive Universum der Serie, erkunde unsere detaillierte Diskussion hier.
Wird Ubisoft dem Ruf nach einer Fortsetzung von "Assassin's Creed Origins" folgen?
Während Fans und die ursprünglichen Synchronsprecher für eine Rückkehr zu den Geschichten von Aya und Bayek plädieren, liegt der Ball im Spielfeld von Ubisoft. Die Fortsetzung ihrer Saga könnte neue Kapitel im Assassin's Creed-Universum aufschlagen, indem sie historische Fiktion mit den reichen Narrativen verbindet, die Fans zu schätzen gelernt haben.
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Every Big Announcement From The Game Awards 2023
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Every Big Announcement From The Game Awards 2023
The Game Awards 2023 was full of announcements big and small, so if you’re having trouble keeping track of them all, we’ve gathered up all our stories here in one place. You can also check out the full list of award winners here. Let us know which announcement excited you most in the comments!
Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons Unreal Engine 5 Remake Revealed
Pony Island 2 Is The Next Game From The Creator Of Inscryption
Dead Cells Developer Motion Twin’s Next Game, Windblown, Revealed
Metaphor: ReFantazio Gets Fall 2024 Release Window In New Trailer
Harmonium The Musical Is A Sign Language Music Adventure
Usual June Is The Latest From Finji
Big Walk
Exodus Is A New Game Starring Matthew McConaughey
God of War Ragnarök Gets A Free Expansion Called Valhalla Next Week
Get A Look At Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II’s Visceral Combat In New Gameplay Trailer
Check Out Big Walk,The Next Game From The Devs Of Untitled Goose Game
Ori Team Moon Studios Reveals Action RPG, No Rest For The Wicked
Ikumi Nakamura Reveals Her Studio’s First Title, Kemuri
The Casting Of Frank Stone Is Supermassive’s Single-Player Horror Game Set In The Dead By Daylight Universe
Sega Is Remaking Some Of Its Best Games
No Rest for the Wicked
Team Ninja’s Rise Of The Ronin Gets March Release Date In New Gameplay Trailer
Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero Is The Next Budokai Tenkaichi Game
After 15 Years, Visions Of Mana Revives The Series
Hideo Kojima Is Making A New Game Called OD With Jordan Peele
Black Myth: Wukong Gets August Release Date In New Gameplay Trailer
Get Another Look At Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden In New Cinematic Trailer
Jurassic Park: Survival Is A Stunning First-Person Adventure Set Right After The First Film
Jurassic Park: Survival
Here’s The Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Trailer From The Game Awards
The First Berserker: Khazan Is A Single-Player Action RPG Set In The DNF Universe
Don’t Nod Reveals Mysterious Adventure Game Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
Hoyoverse’s Zenless Zone Zero Gets 2024 Release Year In New Gameplay Trailer
Marvel’s Blade Is Coming From The Makers Of Deathloop And Dishonored
Last Sentinel Is A New Triple-A Game From Former Rockstar Devs
GTFO Makers Announces New Co-op Heist Title, Den Of Wolves
Marvel’s Blade
Hello Games Celebrates 10 Years Of No Man’s Sky With New Trailer
Hello Games Announces Light No Fire, A Massive Multiplayer Exploration-Based Fantasy Game
Multiplayer Tactical Shooter Exoborne Wants Players To Extract Loot While Fighting In Tornados
The First Descendant Gets A Full Release Next Summer
The Finals, Embark Studio’s Free-To-Play Shooter, Is Out Right Now
Monster Hunter: Wilds Revealed At The Game Awards
Monster Hunter: Wilds
Tales of Kenzera: Zau Is A Magical Metroidvania Inspired By Bantu Myth
Final Fantasy XVI Is Getting Two DLCs And One Of Them Is Available Now
Narrative Adventure Game As Dusk Falls Heads To PlayStation In March
Battle Mechs In Battle Royale Or Alongside Friends In Mecha Break
Alan Wake 2: ‘The Final Draft’ Update Includes New Game Plus And New Ending, Out Next Week
The Outlast Trials Goes 1.0 And Comes To Consoles In March
Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Now Available On Xbox Series X/S
#2023#2024#amp#Announcements#Casting#Cells#Developer#engine#Full#game#games#GATE#language#Light#list#Moon#Music#News#One#Play#PlayStation#REST#sentinel#sky#Stories#styles#universe#War#X#Xbox
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