Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0429 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kush and the Bantu Migrations
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The idea
Bantu speakers spread south and east from about three thousand BCE, with iron tools by five hundred BCE, reshaping Africa's languages. Kush absorbed Egyptian culture; Piye took Egypt's throne in the eighth century; after Assyria's conquest Kush withdrew to Meroë, with iron, a script, and Roman trade.
In practice
Kentake, the queen mother of Meroë.
Where people slip
Meroë ended in the fourth century CE.
Your place on the trail
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