The first inhabitants of what is now Mozambique were San hunter-gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisan people of southern Africa. One can expect that they lived peacefully and in tune with nature, as is still their custom today.
Then, in the first century AD, a wave of Bantu-speaking people migrated from the north, through the Zambezi River valley. These farmers and ironworkers established the great Mwenemutapa Empire, with its capital in Zimbabwe and its influence extending down to the coast of what is now modern-day Mozambique.
The Mwenemutapa empire reigned for close to a thousand years, and both tussled and traded vigorously with
