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Created: 2025-07-21 08:39:15 UTC

An important and widely recognized example is the Bantu people's invention of copper metallurgy in the Lualaba-Upemba region (present-day Zambia and southern Congo) around the fourth century CE, which enabled copper mining, smithing, and trade across Central and even Eastern Africa.

Additionally, the spread of ironworking technology by Bantu migrations brought advanced farming tools and weaponry to vast regions of sub-Saharan Africa, transforming agriculture, enabling the formation of kingdoms, and boosting economic and social development.

These innovations—metallurgy and ironworking—were given freely and widely adopted by other communities, shaping entire regions and having lasting impacts long before European colonization.


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