Bantu Expansion

[War Chef]

Most bloodthirsty expansion ever, more than P-I-E languages.
Fueled by the search for more farm-land after they discovered Farming from Egyptians,
They went crazy and genocided Khoisan people.

[Egyptian]

So sad they didn't move to Egypt ..we would give them free pass to europe from our shores.

[Wadaad]

Bantu expansion had nothing to do with desire for farming...it was pushed by one advantage and one advantage only, the ability to smelt Iron.

Bantu expansion is the consequence of Iron Age coming to Africa.

[War Chef]

^ Moral of the story: Don't give a nigga dat steel or he finna cut yo cushitic ass

[Wadaad]

^ Moral of the story: Don't give a nigga dat steel or he finna cut yo cushitic ass

They brought farming practices to the lower Horn...aswell as legumes like ground nuts, peanuts. We taught them herding cattle and sheep

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

There was no single large bantu Empire responsible for this expansion. It was a series descendants that later moved to become different empires or states. Although Many of them acknowledges common grounds of having the same ancestors. Some even warred with each other when they were expanding.

[Sacrificed Ram]

Iron work didn't come to niger-congo peoples, the most old sites with iron work are in West Africa, they developed the iron melt separately (and firstly) from the rest of the world autonomously.

[Smeagol]

Iron work don't came to niger-congo peoples, the most old sites with iron work are in West Africa, they developed the iron melt separately (and firstly) from the rest of the world autonomously.

No they didn't.

[Sacrificed Ram]

No they didn't.

They are working iron since 3000 BC.

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/...ngle-2009.html

[Smeagol]

They are working iron since 3000 BC.

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/...ngle-2009.html

Your link even admits there are serious doubts about this.

At the site of Oboui they excavated an undated iron forge, for which they obtained eight consistent radiocarbon dates of 2000 BC. This would make Oboui the oldest iron working site in the world, and more than a thousand years older than any other dated evidence of iron in Central Africa. Opinion among African archaeologists is sharply divided. Some accept this interpretation, but it has also been suggested that Oboui is a highly disturbed site, with older charcoal having been brought up to the level of the forge by the digging of pits into older levels [15] Questions have also been raised about the unusually good state of preservation of metallic iron from the site.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_metallurgy_in_Africa