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During the 14th century A bantu speking people known as the Kongo settled along the western coast of Africa.
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1400 marked the beginning of an Age of Celebration
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The portugee's had claimed the island of Sao Tome off the west the coast of Africa.
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portugee's explorers sailed down the western coast of Africa and encounterd the kongo kingdom
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By the 15th century the Kongo had moved south of the congo river and imposed their rule over the inhabitants.
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Portugee's influence increased in kongo when Nzinga Mbemba bacame ruler.
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Alfonso died the portugees were enslaving thousands a year
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The kongo kingdom cut itself off from portugal