1. Early African Peoples
Nomadic Lifestyle: Hunter-gatherers who traveled in small bands of related families.
Agriculture: Began by 6000 B.C. which changed the way Africans lived.
Savannas - grain (best farmland)
Rain Forest - root crops such as yams.
Animism: Belief in spirits in living and non-living things (even take the form of the souls of ancestors)
Griots: Professional storyteller in early West Africa (oral historian)

2. Bantu People Location: West Africa (modern Nigeria)
Lifestyle: Farmers and nomadic herders
Farming: slash and burn
Iron Making: iron weapons enable their spread, spread iron metallurgy throughout most of Sub-Saharan Africa.

3. Bantu Migration
Push-Pull Factors: Factors which push people out of an area or pull them into an area. (factors include environmental, economic, and political)
Causes of migration: Increased food production, increased population density, and lack of sufficient land
Effects of migration: Other peoples pushed out, territorial wars, ideas and languages exchanged, and ethnic groups intermingled