ANT 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ancient Carthage, Ishango Bone, Egyptian Pyramids
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The history of africa begins with the emergence of homo sapiens in east africa, and continues into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. The recorded history of early civilization arose in egypt, and later in nubia, the sahel, the maghreb and the horn of africa. During the middle ages, islam spread through the regions. Crossing the maghreb and the sahel, a major center of muslim culture was timbuktu. Some notable pre-colonial states and societies in africa include the nok culture, mali empire, ashanti. Empire, kingdom of mapungubwe, kingdom of sine, kingdom of saloum, kingdom of baol, kingdom of zimbabwe, kingdom of kongo, ancient carthage, numidia, mauretania, the. Aksumite empire, the ajuran sultanate and the adal sultanate. From the late 15th century, europeans and arabs captured. Africans from west, central and southeast africa and kidnapped them overseas in the african slave trade. European colonization of africa developed rapidly in the.
