What was an impact of poor farming lands on the people in early Africa?

a) diffusion of the Bantu language

b) many pastoralist peoples

c) the development of clans

d) all of the above

The correct answer is "A"

In the area of the most sparsely populated continent, in this same period the expansion of the Bantu peoples took place. The Bantu expansion began in southern Cameroon about 4000 years ago. Today several Bantu languages are spoken and there is archaeological evidence that Neolithic incoming farmers in northern Gabon c. 3800 BC were Bantu. It is known that the Bantu expansion was extremely rapid and massive, but its exact engine remains controversial. This period is prior to iron, which appears in the archaeological record for 2500 BP.

One of the first Bantu expansions was the migration of the Bubis to Bioko. They were still using stone technology in the first European contact. The difficulties of clearcutting the equatorial rainforest of agriculture have led to the suggestion that primary expansion was along the river valleys, a hypothesis supported by studies of fish names. Another factor that may have been the arrival of food crops-Southeast Asia, especially banana AAB, taro and yam-water. Linguistic reconstructions suggest that the only livestock that the proto-Bantu possesses was the goat. Throughout the centuries the entire southern half of Africa was inhabited by the group, excluding only the Kalahari desert. Its expansion only ended relatively recently. In the year 1000, Arab traders describe that the Bantu had gone as far as Mozambique, and the European settlers observed the Bantu expansion in South Africa under the name of Zulu and others.