afican contribution to civilli

“The events which transpired five thousand years ago, five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now. Five years or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.” [John Henrik Clarke]

History is a fundamental part of everyone’s life. The knowing of history is the knowing of ones self, ones identity and ones future. History came into being at the dawn of our existence. Once we could hold rational premeditated thoughts and had lifted ourselves from the reflex behaviour of the animal, history was and is an inevitable must in our future. It is the learning from experience, the study of history that has enabled us to grow into the complex social sophisticated beings that we are today. Ancient civilisation did not begin in what we think of as the West. It did not start in London or Paris, Berlin or Rome; it grew out of Africa, a place that was thought of as a place bearing primitive savage cultures and people till the middle of the last century. In this essay I shall be looking at and discussing the real importance the ancient African peoples and civilisations had on our lives today. I will do this by examining how Africa spaw

Admiration for the accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians is so strong that it prompts quotes such as this “ Egypt itself is a book of history, one of gods great monumental records… it was the birth place of science and literature, the garden and gardener of the world… in the branches of decorative art and the science of arcutechture they were undoubtably far in advance of us in the present day…. The Egyptians were the first to observe the course of the planets, and their observations led them to regulate the year from the course of the sun. They were a wonderful race, combining within themselves all the branches which adorn, beauty, and add to the reputation of a people when directed in the right channel.” [Henry H Gorringe 1882] By viewing this quote you can see that the people of this great land were truly amazing and played a fundamental of everything that is today.

Africa has played a part of crucial importance in the early human development, according to recent findings in the African Continent a huge part of our history has had to be rewritten. The evidence for the earliest development of the ancestors of us, Homo sapiens comes insistently from Africa, just as Darwin over a century ago said it would. Leaky, an Anthropologist/ historian examined our origins and the birth of civilisation and gave Africa three firsts in the respect of Africa being the originator. He concluded firstly that it was the African continent that saw the emergence of early primitive humans as we know them today and that occurred during the Oligocene period, between thirty and forty million years ago. Secondly it was Africa that the main branch which was to end up as man broke away from his primitive apes and this took place in the late Miocene period or early Pliocene period about twelve to fourteen million years ago. Thirdly and during the east African Pleistocene period, “true man” separated from his man like and now extinct cousins, the Australopithecine’s or “near man” of some two million years ago [Leaky 1967].

Africa however was not only our place of origin but it was also the place where we were going to realise our full potential. Our evolution continued down the millennia and centuries, allowing the early ‘men’ to learn how to use and develop tools, to exploit

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