africa question
what is africa brith place of human kind.
the africa persons were evolving there were around 300000 years ago.
when did africans cultivated crops
the africans cultivated the crops 12000
Toilets and sewerage systems existed in ancient Egypt one of who.
pharaohs built a city now known as Amarna. An American urban planner noted that: “Great importance was attached to cleanliness in Amarna as in other Egyptian cities. Toilets and sewers were in use to dispose waste. Soap was made for washing the body. Perfumes and essences were popular against body odour. A solution of natron was used to keep insects from houses . . . Amarna may have been the first planned ‘garden city’.”
West Africans built in stone by 1100 BC. In the Tichitt-Walata region of what.
Mauritania, archaeologists have found “large stone masonry villages” that date back to 1100 BC. The villages consisted of roughly circular compounds connected by “well-defined streets”.
Apparently the Monomotapan royal palace at Mount Fura had what.
handeliers hanging from the ceiling. An eighteenth century geography book provided the following data: “The inside consists of a great variety of sumptuous apartments, spacious and lofty halls, all adorned with a magnificent cotton tapestry, the manufacture of the country. The floors, cielings [sic], beams and rafters are all either gilt or plated with gold curiously wrought, as are also the chairs of state, tables, benches &c. The candle-sticks and branches are made of ivory inlaid with gold, and hang from the cieling by chains of the same metal, or of silver gilt.”
were was the mediaeval nigerian city bulit near
it was bulit near the great wall of china
when did the africans mummifed died
the africans mummifed died 9000 years ago
Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth evean what
even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë. They are generally 20 to 30 metres high and steep sided.
West Africa had walled towns and cities in the pre-colonial period what.
Winwood Reade, an English historian visited West Africa in the nineteenth century and commented that: “There are . . . thousands of large walled cities resembling those of Europe in the Middle Ages, or of ancient Greece.”
Monomotapa had a social welfare system. Antonio Bocarro, a what
Portuguese contemporary, informs us that the Emperor: “shows great charity to the blind and maimed, for these are called the king’s poor, and have land and revenues for their subsistence, and when they wish to pass through the kingdoms, wherever they come food and drinks are given to them at the public cost as long as they remain there, and when they leave that place to go to another they are provided with what is necessary for their journey, and a guide, and some one to carry their wallet to the next village. In every place where they come there is the same obligation.”
when did the africans first organise fishing expeditions
the africans first organise fishing expeditions about 90000 years ago
The first Great Pyramid of Giza, the most extraordinary building was
history, was a staggering 481 feet tall – the equivalent of a 40-storey building. It was made of 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite, some weighing 100 tons.
The Sudanese city of Meroë is rich in surviving monuments and becomeing what.
he Sudanese city of Meroë is rich in surviving monuments. Becoming the capital of the Kushite Empire between 590 BC until AD 350, there are 84 pyramids in this city alone, many built with their own miniature temple. In addition, there are ruins of a bath house sharing affinities with those of the Romans. Its central feature is a large pool approached by a flight of steps with waterspouts decorated with lion heads.
Lord Lugard, an English official, estimated in 1904 that there were 170 were what.
walled towns still in existence in the whole of just the Kano province of northern Nigeria.
Many southern Africans have indigenous and pre-colonial words for what.
‘gun’. Scholars have generally been reluctant to investigate or explain this fact.
when did the africans engage into mining
the africans were to engage into mining in 43000 years ago
The ancient Egyptian city of Kahun was the world’s first planned city was
Rectangular and walled, the city was divided into two parts. One part housed the wealthier inhabitants – the scribes, officials and foremen. The other part housed the ordinary people. The streets of the western section in particular, were straight, laid out on a grid, and crossed each other at right angles. A stone gutter, over half a metre wide, ran down the centre of every street.
Bling culture has a long and interesting history. Gold was used to what.
decorate ancient Sudanese temples. One writer reported that: “Recent excavations at Meroe and Mussawwarat es-Sufra revealed temples with walls and statues covered with gold leaf”.
Cheques are not quite as new an invention as we were led to believe. In what.
the tenth century, an Arab geographer, Ibn Haukal, visited a fringe region of Ancient Ghana. Writing in 951 AD, he told of a cheque for 42,000 golden dinars written to a merchant in the city of Audoghast by his partner in Sidjilmessa.
Evidence discovered in 1978 showed that East Africans were making what.
steel for more than 1,500 years: “Assistant Professor of Anthropology Peter Schmidt and Professor of Engineering Donald H. Avery have found as long as 2,000 years ago Africans living on the western shores of Lake Victoria had produced carbon steel in preheated forced draft furnaces, a method that was technologically more sophisticated than any developed in Europe until the mid-nineteenth century.”
when did the africans pioneered basic arthmetic
the africans pioneered basic arthmetic 25000 years ago
6 The Labyrinth in the Egyptian city of Hawara with its massive layout of what.
multiple courtyards, chambers and halls, was the very largest building in antiquity. Boasting three thousand rooms, 1,500 of them were above ground and the other 1,500 were underground.
In around 300 BC, the Sudanese invented a writing script that had what.
twenty-three letters of which four were vowels and there was also a word divider. Hundreds of ancient texts have survived that were in this script. Some are on display in the British Museum.
West Africa had bling culture in 1067 AD. One source mentions that what.
when the Emperor of Ghana gives audience to his people: “he sits in a pavilion around which stand his horses caparisoned in cloth of gold: behind him stand ten pages holding shields and gold-mounted swords: and on his right hand are the sons of the princes of his empire, splendidly clad and with gold plaited into their hair . . . The gate of the chamber is guarded by dogs of an excellent breed . . . they wear collars of gold and silver.”
Ruins of a 300 BC astronomical observatory was found at Namoratunga what.
in Kenya. Africans were mapping the movements of stars such as Triangulum, Aldebaran, Bellatrix, Central Orion, etcetera, as well as the moon, in order to create a lunar calendar of 354 days.