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    African history began millions of years ago with the earliest humans appearing on the continent. Early humans evolved in Africa and began walking upright, freeing their hands for activities like hunting. Around 2.3 million years ago, early humans began using stone tools for hunting and gathering food. Fossil evidence shows that modern humans inhabited parts of Africa at least 100,000 years ago before spreading to other parts of the world around 40,000 years ago. Africa had thousands of independent states and groups before European colonization in the modern era weakened many African nations and led to independence movements after World War II. Reconstructing African history has been challenging due to a lack of written records for most of the continent.

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    African history began millions of years ago with the earliest humans appearing on the continent. Early humans evolved in Africa and began walking upright, freeing their hands for activities like hunting. Around 2.3 million years ago, early humans began using stone tools for hunting and gathering food. Fossil evidence shows that modern humans inhabited parts of Africa at least 100,000 years ago before spreading to other parts of the world around 40,000 years ago. Africa had thousands of independent states and groups before European colonization in the modern era weakened many African nations and led to independence movements after World War II. Reconstructing African history has been challenging due to a lack of written records for most of the continent.

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    African history began millions of years ago with the earliest humans appearing on the continent. Early humans evolved in Africa and began walking upright, freeing their hands for activities like hunting. Around 2.3 million years ago, early humans began using stone tools for hunting and gathering food. Fossil evidence shows that modern humans inhabited parts of Africa at least 100,000 years ago before spreading to other parts of the world around 40,000 years ago. Africa had thousands of independent states and groups before European colonization in the modern era weakened many African nations and led to independence movements after World War II. Reconstructing African history has been challenging due to a lack of written records for most of the continent.

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    African History

    African History began millions of years ago with the appearance of Home Sapiens on the
    continent and, continuing to the present day with several different politically developed countries
    The history of Africa began from Egypt and later encompassed Nubia, the Sahel,
    the Maghreb and the Horn of Africa. Later the Islamic religion became dominant in the region.
    The Africans were considered inferior by the Europeans who captured them and made them
    slaves. Africans were also captured by African traders and sold either to the Europeans or
    retained as slaves in the Middle Eastern countries. The Europeans also colonized Africa to
    plunder its mineral wealth.
    The first formally recognized members of the mammal family probably started in Africa.
    According study of ancient life, the anatomy of early human skull was like that of the gorilla
    chimpanzee and great apes that also evolved in Africa. However, humans started walking about
    on two legs which freed their hands for defending themselves, hunting and other activities. They
    utilized this important advantage in the open grassy plains at a time when Africa was becoming
    dry and the area of land was fast becoming forested areas. This occurred 10 to 5 million years
    ago .Around 3 million years ago, several pre-historic African primate species had developed
    throughout southern, eastern Africa and central Africa. They learnt to make and use tools in their
    daily lives. .
    They hunted for meat and were meat and plant eaters. Around 2.3 million years ago, primitive
    stone tools were used to kill animals and to collect rotting animal flesh and marrow from their
    bones. Fossils that have been discovered show that Homo sapiens inhabited in southern and
    eastern Africa at least 100,000 and possibly 150,000 years ago. Around 40,000 years ago, the
    species' started to move out of Africa and   spread to all corners of the old world. Their
    relocation can be traced by linguistic, cultural and genetic verification. .
    The general belief about Africa was that it had had up to 10,000 different states and independent
    groups with different languages and customs before its colonization by the Europeans. Many
    African countries later started to demand and struggle for independence. After the Second World
    War, many African countries gained independence because the colonists were weakened by
    many years of fighting with each other for dominance of Europe and its colonies. Eventually
    decolonization took place but the history of Africa has challenged scholars because of the
    scarcity of written material in most parts of the continent. Scholarly techniques such as the
    recording of  history and the non-availability of  historical linguistics, archaeology and
    genetics have made it difficult to recollect and record events as they occurred.
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