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Africa Bantu
Bantus
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where was the original homeland | in niger just off the coast in the little bend |
| when did they start moving out of the homeland | 500 bce |
| how did they start after dispersing | they lived in scattered villages and farmed root crops and fished |
| where did they go | Angola Namibia and settled into eastern africa |
| Who's farming did they adopt in the east and what did they farm | The cushtitic speaking peoples and they farmed millet and sorghum herding cattle sheep and goats |
| what type of agriculture did they practice | slash and burn |
| Where did they end up | all over africa south of where they started |
| What can be said of great zimbabwe | they were a highly sophisticated culture that built large walls with no mortar |
| Who "discovered zimbabwe and who did he say it belonged to | Mauk said it was built by the pheonicians because the cedar wood supports matched the wood in his pencil |
| What was gertrude cation thompsons conclusion | she said that the bantu built it and colonial europeans hated the idea |
| What happened to the people of Mapungupwe | remains a mystery |
| what does zimbabwe mean | great house of stone |
| What did the tower in great zimbabwe represent | graneries |
| what was the currency of great zimbabwe | cattle, gold ivory |