sentences:  Centred on the Congo Basin, the territory of the DRC was first inhabited by Central African foragers around 90,000 years ago and was reached by the Bantu expansion about 3,000 years ago.In the west, the Kingdom of Kongo ruled around the mouth of the Congo River from the 14th to 19th centuries.In the centre and east, the kingdoms of Luba and Lunda ruled from the 16th and 17th centuries to the 19th century.