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What important events happened in 900 AD?
The east coast of Africa was impacted by trade and Arab, Percian and Indian traders mixed with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopted Islam and the Arabic word Swahili, meaning "people of the shore," to describe themselves.
Why did the Bantu-speaking people of Africa migrate southward and eastward between 500 BC and 1500 AD?
It was to find land for farming and grazing.
How long were the Bantu migration?
The Bantu migrations started around 2000 B.C.E and lasted for a few hundred years. About 300-400 years. *Technically speaking The african empires that emerged like Mali and etc are part of the bantu migration.
In comparing African civilizations of the classical era the retained many Egyptian cultural influences while the retained closely related languages.?
Nubian civilization; bantu people
Why were the Bantu more successful than the Egyptians at iron smelting?
Living in the forest gave them more wood for charcoal
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