- c. 1st millennium BCEAfrica
Bantu farmers and ironworkers arrive
Bantu-speaking peoples moved into the region from the north, bringing farming, pottery and iron-working; the Ogooué valley served as a corridor of the wider Bantu expansion across Central Africa.
Era: Forest peoples and the Bantu migrations
Sources: History of Gabon · Encyclopædia Britannica, History of Gabon · Wikipedia, Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Peoples & MigrationThe 3rd century BCE
Peoples & Migration in the 3rd century BCE
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 3rd century BCE, tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 1
- Nations
- 1
- Earliest
- 300 BCE
- Latest
- 300 BCE
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.