Astonishing Africa Research Paper

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Astonishing Africa

The world has many systems and balences, particularly on of them lies in history. Like who changed what and wars, allience and many other things. Many continets play into this system but one unique one is Africa.

The History in Africa is most likely themost massive history in the world, since life was belived to begin there. The groups started out as trailed by nomadic lifestyle. After that small comunities began poping up and defending local territory. Thousand of years onward, about 1000AD, the small comunities turned into kingdoms mostly because of the great reacources that the land prouced. So when the Arad and Europe traders came to trade they could trade with them. In the 1800s europeans started taking control.

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