Essay On Ancient African Americans

Ancient African people made many beneficial contributions to the society. Some of their greatest accomplishments occurred in astronomy, math, medicine, navigation, architecture, engineering, tools, and metallurgy. A lot of treatments in medicine used today were employed from several ancient people from Africa. One of these treatments is when doctors use salicylic acid for pain. Inventions used now that come from their metallurgy are steam engines, metal chisels, saws, copper/iron tools, weapons, glue, nails, and art. The history of African technology and science isn’t as talked about as much as the Greeks and Romans. Even though Africa made endless discoveries years before them. A lot of recent evidence claims that Ancient Africans sailed to South America and Asia hundreds of years before the Europeans. Earlier changes like the making of tools, the emergence of agriculture, and metallurgy (smelted metals like bronze, copper, and lead) happened within the Paleolithic Era. Due to that time period having a scarcity of written resources in large parts of the continent it's caused a big problem. It's made it hard for researchers in the 21st century to find any detailed history from the Paleolithic …show more content…
Ancient Egypt is famous for some of its subjects like pyramids, pharaohs, the sphinx, and Cleopatra. Egypt's civilization lasted from 5000 BC to 300 BC, it's one of the longest lasting civilizations in world history. In the end it perished because of the roman empire. It all started when Egyptian forces surrendered and caused Egypt to fall and be conquered by the Persians. They remained under Persian occupation until 332-331 BC during the coming of Alexander the Great. Egypt had many rivals like the sea people from Greece and Athens, Hittite Empire, Assyrian Empire, and the Mitanni Empire. Most of the rivalry was because of Egypt reaching the peak of its power and other civilizations wanting their