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AP World History Notes Ch 3 Early African Societies & Bantu Migrations August 24, 2005 Source: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072424354/ Cultivation and domestication of animals transformed African cultures, like cultures in southwest Asia, into distinctive societies with more formal states, specialized labor, and more elaborate cultural traditions. The region around the Nile River, Egypt to the north and Nubia to the south, supported the fastest growing and most complex societies in Africa. These societies were noted for their • Centralized political authority embodied in the absolute ruler the pharaoh in Egypt and the person of the King in the region of Kush (Nubia) • Imperialist expansion in the 2nd millennium B.C.E.. as the Egyptian army pushed into