Sub-Saharan Africa: A Vibrant, Diverse, and Intriguing Region of the World

Africa, like many other continents, was a very tremendous and a very diverse civilization that is very complicated to introduce due to all its wonderful but also diverse features and beliefs. From the differences between its society and language to its religion and politics, Africa always had the reputation that its empires, cities, and kingdoms never progressed in the developments and achievements for their civilization. Many people believed that the Europeans were actually the cause of Africa’s achievements and advanced developments for their civilizations. However, this is further than the whole truth. Before the arrival of the Europeans between the 15th and 16th century, African kingdoms, empires, and cities had many achievements and accomplishments

Science researcher Christopher Stringer and science writer Robin McKie state that modern humans first developed in Africa and then spread to other parts of the world.

According to anthropologists the first human beings lived in Ethiopia, Africa around 2 million years ago for example: Lucy known as the oldest human found there. The most probable reason why the first human left Africa is because of the Ice Age. The cold made life so difficult to survive and somehow reduced in their population. They went through a land bridge, which existed to connect North America and Asia during the Ice Age.

Next where did the humans originate from? Humans originated from Africa. But why? The reason the humans where in Africa was because they were following their food or game and they migrated. They were also called nomads because they did not stay in one place they moved around and made their way here.

During the age of cross-cultural interactions, regions went through similar changes and continuities. These regions allowed consistent causes and effects to emerge and change their societies. These changes and continuities are evident in the regional societies located within Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas from 600 to 1450 CE, opportunities for women changed, however religion and labor continued to influence society.

Humans first originated at Africa and then they were nomads so when they food is gone they follow it so then they found now known Egypt. After that when they food was gone they found Asia and China and populated there and still making the food go causing them

People originated from the eastern part of Africa. Then they spread out to find water and food. Eventually, the people became nomads and followed their food into Europe and Asia and spread throughout the continents.

Humans began in Africa,they started using stone tools and fire to cook their food. They were hunters and gatherers, they gathered berries and other plants and hunted deer and other animals for meat. Humans then migrated to Asia and Europe, they spread across the continent. “ Genetic evidence suggests that soon after leaving Africa, they interbred to some extent with the Neanderthals and a mysterious population in Asia called the

Sub Saharan Africa ,over 800 million people and 40 countries is a very large land mass surrounded by flat, elevated landforms, basins, the Sahel, Savannas, Rift Valleys, Deserts, Plateaus, Rain Forests. The highest area of Sub- Saharah is the Great Rift Valley which forms deep valleys, volcanos and lakes. The Great Rift Valley is most prominent physical feature in East Africa. The landscape of Sub Sahara Africa is mostly red soil, food crops and bright blue skies, animal herds, rivers that run thru the rain forest and deserts. Plateaus and basins make up for much of Africas physical geography. Sub saharan Africa is considered an elevated land mass, but it does not have high mountain ranges or deep valleys. The four major rivers of Sub-Saharan

According to my Early Human Civilization Map Humans originated in northeast africa. They originated From there because of hot climate. Hot climates means plenty of vegetation, water sources, and food.

Humans have roamed this earth for thousands of years. Considering that, we can't help but raise the question of where we all came from. Around the 1950s, it was widely believed among European scientists that Homo sapiens originated in Europe or Asia around 60,000 years ago. Based on more recent discoveries by Mary Leakey and her husband Louis while excavating in East Africa, we now believe that Homo sapiens may have first emerged in Africa many years earlier. Of course it is impossible to know exactly when the human species first emerged, but based on fossil evidence, most paleoarchaeologists believe that around 6 million years ago, the human ancestral line split from that of the chimpanzee and evolved into a new group. This

Human origins, evolution, and diffusion are important for understanding the history of Africa. African historians take pride in the fact that Africa is most certainly the birthplace of humanity. There is evidence showing that humanity began in Africa by remains left behind by human groups and societies. They have retrieved fossils of living organisms, and even written records, like cave drawings. Dating back millions of years ago Africa provides the best time line of human development because other parts of the world do not have evidence dating back as far as in Africa. Where did humanity and human history begin? There are theories supporting both that, humans evolved from various parts of the world, and that humans rose in Africa then migrated to other parts of the world and continued to develop. The theory that has the most support is that humanity rose in Africa then moved to other regions of the world. Africa is indeed the home of humanity but because Africa is where humanity began they were not able to be at the top of the evolutionary ladder because their global location did not allow them to develop faster. Human history in general is difficult to understand but we can look at the past to learn more about where we came from and how our societies have developed.

Due to climate changes in the Sahara savannas (the nucleus of civilization), it is acknowledged that the first tribes traveled from that central point (Kenya//Ethiopia) and took their initiations and martial ways of surviving with them (Islamic scholars and Black Gods alike, acknowledge from a source of information that the original or first man was created in the rich soil garden of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, [which is also a part of Africa] as stated in the holy Quran from Black-Mud fashioned into shape. This was before it became a barren desert land and populated elsewhere. The original Black man was the first true Arabian-Land Lord or Lord of the Land).

The ‘out of Africa’ theory implies that Anatomically modern humans evolved in East Africa between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago and began to disperse throughout the world roughly 70,000 to 135,000 years ago. In 2011, scientists came to the conclusion there were likely two major waves of migration out of Africa - the Early northern Africa dispersal and Southern Route dispersal.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the second largest of the earth 's seven continents, covering about twenty-two percent of the world 's total land area. From its northern most point, to its southern most tip is the distance of nearly five thousand miles (Frederickson & Fossberg, 2014).