Africa | Chronology of Events

4000 B.C.– 1500 B.C.: Climate changes transform Saharan region from grassland to desert, creating a barrier inhibiting easy movement of people between northern Africa and the rest of the continent.

3100 B.C.: Upper and Lower Egypt are unified, marking the rise of what is recognized as Africa’s first major civilization.

1000 B.C.– A.D. 300: Bantu-speaking people gradually spread from what is now the Nigeria-Cameroon border downward into central and southern Africa, spreading their knowledge of farming and ironworking and displacing indigenous Mbuti...

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