Black Studies Essay Research Paper African

African’s past can be dated back to millions and millions of years. People from

every continent is a descendant of the African origin. This essay will explain African’s isolation to the rest of the world and some of the famous contributions and some of Africa’s contributions to our world.

Researchers have found that African people were the home of the first human beings. They have found fossils and archaeological findings that support thus evidence and by genetic research. These findings date back to 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia. Actually human beings date back to 40 thousand years, these people were discovered also in Ethiopia.

Around 10 thousand BC the Fertile Crescent had a large agricultural lands that produced vegetation, economic wealth, and brought people together. 7000 thousand years later the land became unagricultural and started to look the way it looks today in the Sahara Desert. This divided the continent into 2 parts, the North and the South. This made trade and contact to others extremely difficult. Poor soils due to shortage of water have taken its toll on Africa too. This is because poor soils lead to bad vegetation, which leads to less food, and then there are fewer jobs and less wealth. Fewer good also lead to diseases related to not eating well. Also Africa doesn’t connect to any particular place. It has no rivers leading into the seven oceans, so there is not transportation or communication to those in the middle of Africa. This means no imports or exports therefore, any economic wealth.

Africa is made of 400 million people throughout 50 countries with 800 different languages, which is probably difficult for communication and understanding of each other’s. Leading again to Africa taking power of the world. Europe had labeled Africa as the “Dark Continent” because they didn’t know much about it. Even though thousands of years ago their customs and ways of doing things originated from Africa.

Africa’s contributions to our world date back to about six thousand years in Egypt. It begins with the agricultural revolution which wheat and barley were grown with methods of irrigation, terracing, and crop rotations. Raising and domesticating animals was also a practice. The developing of better tools such ones made of metals like iron and bronze. Hieroglyphics, which are picture painting, were carved into stones to show what was going on. African’s contributed the 365-day calendar and are the first people to divide the year into 12 months. Also the one of the wonders of the world the pyramids are built during this time. Each weighed about 2.3 tonnes. The earliest doctors and chemists introduce mummification. Priests and kings as rulers are introduce at this time. These important contributions were copied and made better then given credit to others in the world.

Some individual contributors to African history was Imhotep a multi-genius. He was a great artisan, physician, mathematician, priest and architect. He designed the step pyramid and proven African’s were well skilled and educated.

Aesop was the great storyteller of is time. His stories always had a message or lesson for listeners to follow. Some historians believed tat Christianity’s Virgin Mary portrays Isis a mother and an African goddess who was married to Orisis. They were the “holy family of religion”.

The Dogons contributed in astronomy. They discovered a binary star system, Sirius A and Sirius B which revolved around each other every 50 years. They came to believe the origins of the universe.

The Barbarians dating back 8000 BC shows cereals, and pottery were made during this time. Many Africans today are not aware of the many contributions Africa has put into this world. Europeans has a way of taking skills and lifestyles for them, and giving themselves the credit. They also give credit to Egyptians who contributed to a lot to our world. People do not know exactly what race they were, but lots of evidence shows that Egyptians were of African decent tracing them back to Africa once again.

Bibliography

Pachai, Dr. Bridglal. Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia Blacks. Vol. 1: 1600-1800. Halifax: Black Educators Association of Nova Scotia, 1987.