Bantu Migrations (jan 1, 4500 BC – jan 1, 600 BC)
Description:
Modern-day Nigeria and CameroonCultivate crops adopted from Sudan
Small clan-based villages
Trade with nearby hunter-gatherer communities
Driven mostly by population pressure
Spread agriculture and farming throughout Sub-Saharan Africa
Develop individual but similar cultures.
Age sets (an individual's task in society determined by their specific age group; kind of like shorter and work-based generations)
Mostly adopted Niger-Congo monotheism, but in drastic variety
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Date:
jan 1, 4500 BC
jan 1, 600 BC
~ 3902 years