Paper 1 · early communities and the Iron Age
One political result of iron working for the societies of Southern Africa was that...
Atrade between communities came to an end
Bevery family made its own tools and needed no smith
Cgroups with iron weapons conquered their neighbours
Dpeople gave up keeping cattle and lived by hunting
Explanation: Iron spears and axes gave their owners a decisive advantage over communities still armed with stone and wood. Groups that controlled ore and smelting could subdue their neighbours and demand tribute from them, and that is how the larger chiefdoms and later the Iron Age states of the region were built.
Derived from ZIMSEC History Paper 1, June 2019, Q3