Ch 8 African civilizations
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- The savanna’s the northern coast and the southern tip of Africa. These places had fertile soil on the coasts which means it was densely populated by farmers
- Most people in Africa live in the savanna’s. These grassy plains included mountainous highlands and swampy tropical stretches.
- Africas earliest peoples were nomadic hunter gatherers.
- The first humans appeared in the great Rift Valley, a deep gash in earths crust that runs through the floor of the Red Sea and across Eastern Africa
- The societies of the Sahara like all human cultures shared common elements. Families that shared common ancestors sometimes formed groups known as clans.
- African peoples organized themselves into family groups. They also developed belief systems that helped them understand and organize information about their world.
- The people of Africa unlike everyone else skipped over the copper age and Bronze Age.
- west Africa’s earliest known culture was the Nok. They were also the first west African people to smelt iron.
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