World History › Section G · The ancient Americas and Africa › Topic G.5
Farming and the Bantu migrations
Africans both borrowed crops and animals from Southwest Asia and domesticated their own, and some of them later worked iron. Then, over about three thousand years, speakers of Bantu languages spread across most of the southern half of the continent. This topic explains how scholars know.
In this topic
- Many beginnings
- Pottery, cattle and borrowed crops
- Africa's own crops
- Worked example: why herding came first
- Iron south of the Sahara
- The Nok culture
- Who were the Bantu?
- Worked example: history from words
- Routes through and around the forest
- Meeting other peoples
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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