Ancient Africa

Did you ever know that was named the dark continent
because it was an unknown landscape, and Europeans thought it
was new land. In this essay we will be talking about Africa’s
Ancient civilization mostly around Morocco and Zimbabwe. Africa
is a very interesting continent, it has lots of history. From 1500 –
1000 b.c. will the information take place.

Africa’s government and military was like everyone else’s

but just a little bit less. The Phoenicians and Carthage fought in the
Punic War. The Punic War was between Italy, Rome, the
Phoenicians and Carthage. The Phoenicians and Carthage lost the
war because Rome had an extensive amount of soldiers. To sell in
Africa you had to follow a law. The law is un-specified but others
know the rule for today. The greatest government in Africa was
Zimbabwe because the had a great amount of power over
everything.

Some known warriors were Sundiata and Mansa Musa.

Sundiata was a great warrior who lived from 1200-1255 b.c..
Sumangure was a villain because he was a rebel and wanted things
his own way. Sumangure wanted to go to war with Sundiata in
Ghana because he thought conquering Sundiata would make
everyone want to listen to him. Mansa Musa was in the Moroccan
bloody war. The reson they called this war bloody was because the
Spanish and Moroccan were tearing each other apart and there was
blood everywhere. The villain in this war was Songhai a immigrant
that migrated to Spain. Luckily Mansa Musa conquered Songhai.
Many people worship gods or go to church. In ancient Africa
some people went to church. Some people didn’t. The citizen of
Africa believed in many gods. The gods are not specified but
when people went to worship these gods they build a place where
they had statues of their gods. They would usually do rituals and
they could last for several hours. Some people just went to church
and for God. ( Catholic )

Ancient African cultures were simple. Some villages had a

story teller that memorizes stories about their history and the
storyteller shared them with the tribe. The stories were usually 4
hours long. Some small villages sang and dance at night after a
hard day in the fields farming.

Ancient African daily life usually involved trading items in a

process called Dumb Bartering. Two essential things they traded
was gold and salt. They thought gold was essential because they
could buy lots of thing with it. They thought salt was important
because it would preserve their meats. Timbuktu was the greatest
trading city, next to Ghana. It was the greatest trading city and
buying city because of its great population.

Some other interesting things about Africa are that iron was
discovered in the village of the Nok. The Nok’s learned how to
smelt the iron, or to form it into shapes. The Nok’s were the most
advanced village because of the discovery of iron. The stone Age
became the Iron Age when the Nok’s discovered iron and learn
how to turn it into shapes. Also, the Sahara is one of the hottest
desert on earth.

As you may see Africa is home of many things, you could

trade goods. You could be a storyteller for a tribe, or maybe just a
regular farmer or soldier. Africa has many things to do and see
there. Overall, Africa is just like any other continent.