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Early Africa

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African population: 1.033 billion 88.5 people per sq. mile Chinese population: 1.351 billion 360.5 per square mile European population: 739.2 million 188 people per square mile US population: 313.9 million 82 people per square mile

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Nubia Society begins to develop 4,000 3,100 BCE Kerma, 2,500 BCE Napata, 1,000 BCE

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The Cataracts of the Nile

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Nubia known as: "Ta-Seti - Land of the Bow Kush Kerna conquered Egypt in 760 BCE XXVth Dynasty, the Nubian Dynasty Defeated by the Assyrians in 656 BCE

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Agriculture develops in the western Sahara (modern day Mauritania) Cattle a measure of wealth as well as a food source.

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African rice different from Asian rice more brittle, mills less efficiently more tolerant to poorer growing conditions resistant to disease Millet heat tolerant adaptable Yams

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Sorghum Teff Oil palm

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Sahara had fertile savannas and steppes until c. 5000 B.C.E. when the monsoon wind pattern shifted eastward.

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Iron working 1,000 500 BCE ?

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Aksum Ethiopian chiefdoms become the kingdom of Aksum c. 100 CE King Ezana converts to Christianity in 333 CE Semitic in origin? Probably African

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Sub-Saharan Africa West African ecological zones Sahel Savanna Rainforest Yam and oil palm farmers exhaust rainforest soil Farmers move west, south, and eventually east

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Sahel Savanna

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Bantu migration

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Problem: Disease Malaria mosquito Sleeping sickness tsetse fly Yellow Fever mosquito River Blindness black fly Filariasis (elephantiasis) black flies & mosquitoes Bubonic plague fleas

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African Language Groups 200-500 CE bananas, chickens, pigs