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The Bantu migration/expansion (view interactive map)
Bantu is a label given to around 600 African ethnic groups who speak Bantu languages and whose ancestors migrated from West Africa about 3,000 years ago. The Bantu migration displaced many of the earlier inhabitants such as the Mbuti, Twa, Baka and Khoisan people (!kung, Ju‘|hoan, Kwadi, Khoekhoe, K’wa).
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bantu ethnic groups make up over 80% of the population with the Luba (Baluba), Mongo and Kongo (Bakongo), Songye people making up the largest percentage and the Nilotic people (the Bari, Alur and Kakwa people) Sudanic people (such as Mangbetu, Azande, Ngbandi people) the indigenous Mbuti/Bambuti, (which is used to refer to the Sua, Efe and Asua as a collective), the Mongo Twa, Kasai Twa/Cwa, Great Lakes Twa and Baka people making up the rest of the ethnic Congolese population. (see a list of Congolese ethnic groups)
Map showing the languages of D.R.Congo (source) the map also shows the ethnic population but doesn’t include the indigenous people
Blue = people who identify as Sudanic (Adamawa-Ubangi), Green = Bantu, Pink = Nilo-Saharan, Grey - Unclassified
Other Bantu ethnic groups also include, Swahili/ Waswahili (or Muswahili = singular and Baswahili = plural as they’re called in D.R.Congo), Zulu, Kikuyu, Mbole. Lokele, Suku, Herero, Shona, Xhosa people and hundreds of others
Pre-colonial Bantu kingdoms and states include the Kongo Kingdom, Zulu kingdom, the Swahili City States (which includes Comoros, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilwa Kisiwani, Lamu, Pate, Malindi) Kingdom of Zimbabwe/Great Zimbabwe, Luba kingdom, Mutapa kingdom, Rozwi kingdom, Kuba kingdom, Butua kingdom, Ndongo kingdom and many others
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who decided popcorn was the official movie food
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All of Europe @ Germany post-WW1
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european history
austria: shit hold on i wasn't ready
ottoman empire: shit hold on i wasn't ready
france: shit hold on i wasn't ready
russia: shit hold on i wasn't ready
prussia: i dont know whats going on but my army is on the way
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The Massandra Palace, residence of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, Massandra, Crimea
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if you ever think history isn’t an important subject just remember that my friend’s solution to poverty was to “just print more money”
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today i learned that the first use of “omg" occurred in 1917 in a letter to winston fucking churchill
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Why are the ‘world wars’ called the ‘world’ wars when it was only a bunch a white countries beefing over who gets to control and fuck up the world the most? Why does everything white suddenly become the world?
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To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong
V.I. Lenin, The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 (via spectreofcommunism)
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Mugshot of a 2-year-old Francois Bertillon, arrested for eating a basket of pears
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Unlikely simultaneous historical events
A poster on Reddit asks: What are two events that took place in the same time in history but don’t seem like they would have?
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Three Nurses Carry Babies Cocooned in Gas Masks During a Drill. London, 1940.
via reddit
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First month of the Korean War.
Source: LIFE July 17, 1950
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