Each African environment has its own set of difficulties.
Africans formed family units to organize themselves.
The majority of Africans in the Sahel region lived in tiny communities.
Aside from the human urge for change, migrations are triggered by three factors: environmental, economic, and political.
The proliferation of languages is one way that specialists can track people's travel patterns across time.
Bantu speakers were not a single people, but rather a collection of people with similar cultural traits.
Although it is hard to know for certain what drove the Bantu-speaking peoples to move, anthropologists have provided a plausible theory.
Because to its location and growth, Aksum became a crossroads for caravan routes to Egypt and Mero.
Like other ancient Africans, the Aksumites believed in a single god.
Following his father's death, Ezana ascended to the throne as an infant.
The inscription on Ezana's stele is written in Ge'ez, the early Arab language that was imported to Aksum.
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