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10th century BCE

  1. c. 1st millennium BCE★★★★★

    Bantu expansion

    Bantu-speaking peoples from west-central Africa gradually spread across eastern and southern Africa over millennia, bringing agriculture and ironworking.

    CultureEconomy· Cameroon, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa

19th century

  1. 1885 – 1908★★★★★

    Leopold II's Congo Free State

    King Leopold II of Belgium ruled the Congo as a personal possession; its forced-labour rubber regime caused mass deaths until Belgium annexed the territory in 1908.

    PoliticsEconomy· DR Congo, Belgium
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