African History

People of the West tend to know little about Africa and African history, including the history of the colonial era when the West had the greatest involvement in that part of the world. Modern Africa is said to begin around 1800, while the colonial era ended only since about 1960. Africa is generally considered in terms of its division into two parts by the equator, and there are climatic, geographic, and historical distinctions to be made between the northern and southern areas of Africa. Distinctions can also be made, as does Ramsay, for Eastern, Central, and Western regions of the continent. The northern region is marked by desert, which has always been a formidable obstacle to outside forces. For the last 2,000 years, the horse and the camel have served as the means for crossing this vast area. In ancient times, the northern part of Africa was in touch with the Roman and Greek worlds to a

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ties as they oversimplified the nature of the people and their past. The culture of Africa has been varied and complex for a long time, and the achievements of Africans before the arrival of Europeans were considerable. The connections between the different cultures of Africa can be seen now as extending back to the beginning of humankind, for recent research seems to indicate that human beings first emerged on the African continent. Cultural development in the area can be traced back to the paleolithic, and Africans began to use well-fashioned stone implements in the neolithic era. The domestication of animals and the cultivation of plants has been traced to Egypt about 5000 B.C. and may have been brought there from the Levant and Mesopotamia through trade contacts. within some 1500 years, the lower Nile region was developed into a region of farming communities, with a growing urban civilization culminating in the emergence of dynastic Egypt and a sophisticated culture in the Nubian areas of the Upper Nile Valley. The earliest settlers in the Nile Valley reached the area some time around 4000 B.C., emerging from the neolithic culture of the Tasian villages of Upper Egypt and those of Merimdeh on the western edge of the De
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