Urewe culture

Urewe culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Great Lakes (Central and Southern Africa) from c. 500 BCE to 600 CE, a span of 1,099 years. Its people spoke Bantu languages (Kongo, Shona, Zulu, Swahili, Luba, Ganda).

An Early Iron Age culture named after a site in western Kenya, known for dimple-based pottery and some of the earliest iron smelting south of the Sahara, with furnaces in Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania's Kagera region.

See Urewe culture on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates: c. 500 BCE to 600 CE
Duration: 1,099 years
Type: People or culture
Region: Great Lakes, Central and Southern Africa
Language family: Bantu

Events in Central and Southern Africa during its time

500 BCE Iron smelting in the Great Lakes
50 The Periplus describes Azania

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE, North and West Africa
Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
Tiwanaku c. 400 to 1000 CE, South America
Roman Republic 509 to 27 BCE, Europe
Parthian Empire 247 BCE to 224 CE, Middle East

Questions

When did Urewe culture exist?

c. 500 BCE to 600 CE, about 1,099 years. These dates are approximate, because the evidence for its beginning or end is uncertain.

Where was Urewe culture?

Great Lakes, in Central and Southern Africa.

What language did Urewe culture speak?

Bantu. This family includes Kongo, Shona, Zulu, Swahili, Luba, Ganda.