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3. This is something of a judgment call on my part, given that damn-all has been written about population movements in early Uganda and what does exist is frequently contradictory. It appears, however, that large-scale political units began to develop in the Lake Victoria area around AD 1000 when the introduction of the plantain made higher population densities possible, and that Nilotic pastoralists were moving south into Uganda at about this time. I'm assuming that two factors will accelerate this development in the Submission Timeline. First, the expansion of Egypt[[ will push the Nilotic tribes southward at an earlier date. Second, knowledge of rudimentary crop rotation will arrive via traders beginning in the early second century SE, enabling higher yields of pre-plantain crops.  Thus, unless someone has a better idea, the Reshemite kingdom is founded by pastoralists who arrive in the late first century and conquer the Iron Age [[Bantu farmers who had lived there for the past millennium. By the time of Benjamin's visit, the pastoralists have largely been absorbed into the Bantu population through intermarriage, although some traditions remain.  The political structure of the Reshemite kingdom (including the title of the king) is adapted from the OTL Bunyoro, with allowances for artistic license.

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