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Humans begin migrating out of Africa and across the World in 160,000 BC. This interactive map takes us through 8,000 B.C.
Journey of Mankind (http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/) -
From the 1500s to the 1800s, European slave traders forced an estimated 10 million Africans to the Americas and Caribbean in chains.
[http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html] -
From 1840s-1910 an estimated 17 million Europeans emigrate to North America.
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With the passage of the Homestead Act and discovery of gold in California, the race to settle the American West began.
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From 1882 to the present day, Jews from across Europe and the rest of the world began settling what became the state of Israel. The largest numbers moved following WWII.
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As Hitler came to power, the expulsion of people began before the internal killing. From 1939-1945, Nazi Germany deported 7-8 million people.
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To escape Jim Crow laws and find better economic opportunities, an estimated 4.3 million African Americans left the southern U.S.A. from 1940-1970.
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin forced 0.7 million Chechnans to migrate after accusing them of helping the Germans during WWII.
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The Soviet Union expelled 9-10 million ethnic Germans after the end of WWII.
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When British India was divided into Pakistan and India, Hindus moved to India and Muslims moved to Pakistan. An est. 15 million moved and 1 million people were killed in the violence of the migration that lasted about three years.
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When Mao Zedong and the Communists seized power, an estimated 2 million Chinese fled the country.
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In the 1970s, an estimated 1-2 million people fled the Communists and the war with the United States.
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In one of the largest (160 million) internal migrations, Chinese people continue to flee rural poverty for work in the cities.
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In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. When they retreated in 1988 a civil war began. Continued violence means an estimated 2.58 million people have fled the country since the 1980s.
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Since civil war broke out in Syria, 4.8 million people left the country and 6.6 are internally displaced.
