Central & Southern Africa

Why did the "Bantu" region of Africa never develop? I mean even other regions of Sub-Saharan Africa like West Africa and East Africa had some notable civilizations that were pretty intriguing and cool but this region never really developed any civilizations of note.

Not an expert, but in a class I took on agriculture (land management major) that area of Africa, and most parts of Africa, are not well suited to animal domestication. Europe and the Middle East, as well as Egypt, fared much better because of animal husbandry. If you can't really get to that point in your "technology" you're probably going to be stuck. Main reasons for poor domestication were disease/insects/predators.

My theory is that it has to do with extreme social isolation and the lack of interaction with foreign civilizations, cultures, and people.

Heck most of Europe was backwards and primitive prior to widespread Romanization and many regions of Europe were irrelevant prior to the post-middle ages (i.e. 1500's) like Germany, Scandinavia, Ireland, Russia, Poland, and Ukraine so (in other words) areas that were never apart of the Roman Empire and basically until the Renaissance.

Shitty environment, diseases rampant like malaria and other jungle shit, no real animals to domesticate that would even be viable (given how shit your living was, you didn't have time to tame and feed an animal as you're starving), etc.

It's easier to colonize and live there once you advance, but good luck advancing and trying to get over that original hurdle while having to start off there.

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>Heck most of Europe was backwards and primitive prior to widespread Romanization
This is simply untrue.

Bullshit. Name me some impressive civilizations in Ancient Northern Europe, France, or Germany. You can't.

>Muh mapangubwe
>Muh great zimbabwe

It is true. Prior to the Greeks and Romans most of Europe was basically a colder Africa with real civilization being in the Middle East and Mediterranean.

Prior to that you had huts, random warlords and druids, and little civilization to speak of. And after Roman rule civilization really took off there.

But let's not pretend Europe any different. They were just whiter niggers before Greece and Roman influence.

Great Zimbabwe is a pretty impressive structure but it's not a civilization. However it'll be interesting to see if any more information eventually emerges.

>mapangubwe

Not jackshit.