WOH 2012 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 - Early Africa & Egypt
Document Summary
Geography and climate can be attributed to the cause of africa"s isolation. Africa has 5 climatic and vegetative zones: the mediterranean and extreme southern coasts lie outside tropical zones and have temperate climate with good soil, the sahel, the dry, treeless steppes, the deserts, the rain forests, the savanna. Africa had a wet period that allowed nomads to try different methods of growing food. Khoisan: a group of people who inhabited east africa: mainly hunter-gatherers until they were displaced by neolithic food producers. Nilo-saharan speakers & afro-asiatic speakers: a group of hunter- gatherers who (through the wet period) were able to move because abundance of new crops. Niger-congo speakers: a group inhabiting the southern, woodlands of west africa in the wet period. After the wet period ended, people moved back south or north or stayed on riverbanks to be fishers and farmers. Desert conditions spreading caused the niger-congoans to move southward.
