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Timeline. 5000 BCE. Organised farming begins in Egypt . c. 3500 BCE. The Sahara desert begins to spread in Africa due to climate change. 2000 BCE. Speakers of the Bantu language begin migrating southward. c. 2000 BCE. Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.
The ancient history of Africa spans from the ancient period until the medieval and early modern period in the history of Africa . Antiquity. The ancient history of North Africa is inextricably linked to that of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of Ancient Egypt and Nubia.
The ancient history of North Africa is inextricably linked to that of the Ancient Near East and Europe. This is particularly true of the various cultures and dynasties of Ancient Egypt and of Nubia.
View a map of Africa in 3500 BCE, when hunter-gatherers roam most of the continent and farming is limited to the Nile Valley.
Africans living in the heart of the African continent participated separately and independently in the key technological transitions of ancient world history. And they did so during the same broad eras as peoples in other parts of the globe.
barely more than fifty thousand years ago, the primary ancestors of every single human being alive today lived in east-ern Africa.1 World history to that point was African history.
Writing Africa’s early history ideally involves collaboration among experts in using each kind of source, an increasingly common practice. Despite the challenges of analysis and interpretation posed by this base of sources, early African history has a depth and breadth akin to the histories made from the written sources in archives.
