Did all humans begin in Africa?
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Yes, I don't understand why people have such a hard time accepting this truth but yes, life began in Africa.  We are all descendants of Africans.
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Population increases put pressure on agriculture\n\nBantu expansion\n \nOne common hypothesis of the Bantu expansionToday the accepted truth is a synthesis of the above named theories. The Bantu first originated around the Benue-Cross rivers area in southeastern Nigeria and spread over Africa to the Zambia area. Sometime in the second millennium BC, perhaps triggered by the drying of the Sahara and pressure from the migration of people from the Sahara into the region, they were forced to expand into the rainforests of central Africa (phase I). About 1000 years later they began a more rapid second phase of expansion beyond the forests into southern and eastern Africa. Then sometime in the first millennium new agricultural techniques and plants were developed in Zambia, likely imported from South East Asia via Malay speaking Madagascar. With these techniques another Bantu expansion occurred centered on this new location (phase III).\n\nBy about 1,000 AD it had reached modern day Zimbabwe and South Africa. In Zimbabwe the first major southern hemisphere empire was established, with its capital at Great Zimbabwe. It controlled trading routes from South Africa to north of the Zambezi, trading gold, copper, precious stones, animal hides, ivory and metal goods with the Arab traders of the Swahili coast. By the 14th or 15th centuries the Empire had surpassed its resources and had collapsed, with the city of Great Zimbabwe being abandoned.
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"The first African civilization after Egypt was built by an Egyptianized people who lived between the Nile River's first and third cataracts and spoke Nilo-Saharan languages. This region around the first cataract, called Nubia, had been conquered and colonized by Egypt in the fourth millenium BC. Because of this, Egyptian civilization diffused southward and a new African kingdom was built up in the floodplain around the Nile's third cataract: the Kush. Their capital city was Kerma and it served as the major trading center for goods travelling north from the southern regions of Africa. \n\n"Kush attained its greatest power and cultural energy between 1700 and 1500 BC during the Third Intermediate period in Egypt. The domination of Egypt by the Hyksos allowed Kush to come out from under the hegemony of Egypt and flower as a culture; this period ended, however, when the New Kingdom kings, having thrown the Hyksos out of Egypt, reconquered Kush and brought it under Egyptian colonial rule."\n\nMuch more at the article linked below.
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All humans are related in one way or another, but not because of Adam, he never existed! it would take more then just 2 people to make the human race flourish and multiply! You would have to be a complete fool to actually believe that there were only 2 people in the beginning. Scientist will tell you that you need at least 15 - 20 of the same species for them to survive, otherwise they would die out.
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Humanity, pre-history.
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he happens to be wrong. Scientists and archeaologists have traced the origin of the homo spp. to the area of africa known as the great rift. Modern humans first apeared in one of three places: North Africa, Central Asia/Middle East, or Eastern Europe.
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Sorry, "Lucy" lived 3.2 million years ago, not 35,000 years ago.\n\nScientists have a pretty clear trail of the spread of humans "out of Africa."  The first signs of humans in North/South America came about 40,000 years ago.  In Australia, about 55,000 years ago.  They didn't all appear at the same time -- and this is clear from geologic, anthropologic, and biologic evidence.
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eastern Africa dating to between 1.7 million
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No, Ethiopia is an invention of the 20th Century, having been known as Abyssinia until the West sold Haille Selassie down the river, and allowed the fascist Italian government to usurp him. Before that, it was originally known as Nubia from which we take the term nubile.\nIt is not known for sure where the first Homo Sapiens ocurred, although it would have been around the NE of Africa, or the Middle East.
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Tough question.  I believe that Ethiopia was the only African country never colonized.  However, it was ruled by Italy during WWII
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nope. you're right, not everyone is born in Africa. so just say black. great question!
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Human beings did not descend from chimpanzees.  Rather they had a common ancestor.  It appears from recent research that initially they were not occupy seperate genus, and continued to interbreed.  Probably around the time the Great Rift Valley opened up, they divurged sufficiently for this to cease.  A likely explanation is that man, tho' genetically nearly idential to his chimp cousin at this point, was sufficiently more adaptable that he was able to sustain himself on the east side of the valley, which had become a savannah rather than rain forest.
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Colonial scholars believed that the Tutsi came from East Africa, possibly Sudan, Uganda or Ethiopia, around 1400, to settle first around Lake Kivu.\n\nThe Hutu arrived in the Great Lakes region around the 1st century, displacing the Twa.
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You are probably thinking of the genetic studies that concluded that the most recent human common matrilineal ancestor was a woman in Africa about 150,000 years ago.  Those studies examined mitochondrial DNA from various sample groups existing today.  Those studies are valid, but only demonstrate what they purport to: everyone alive today is descended from a woman in Africa (almost certainly black) who lived about 150,000 years ago and there is no other more recent woman from whom everyone is descended.\n\nThat does not mean she was the first human or even the first human female.  She lived in a group, all of whom were human.  She had a mother and father, both of whom were human.\n\nIt is never going to be possible to say any particular person was the first human.  The transformation from homo erectus to homo sapiens took a very long time and occurred very gradually.  They sort of fade into one another.  You can't single out any one point in the process and say Here!  Here is where it happened!
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The Egptians have had writing for as long as anyone.  The Greeks, Romans, Vandals and Arabs all recorded their history in writing.\n\nSouth of the Sahara history was an opral tradition, although there are references to Africa in Greek, Roman, Arab, Indian and Chinese writings.\n\nThere has been a European colony on the Cape of Good Hope for about 400 years, so that history has been recorded.  Apart from that, there have been regular European contacts for about 600 years.
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I am curious as to who the "they" is that you are referring to...\n\nCurrently there are two theories regarding the origins of modern humans, "Multiregional" and "Out of Africa".\n\nThe Africa origin theory is pretty well supported with fossil, artifact (tools, etc.) and DNA evidence, the multiregional origin theory has less evidence (currently) but this should not completely discount it.\n\nThe first link has more on the differences between these, and examines the evidence in more detail. The next two provide some examples of the competitiveness of this debate.\n\nKeep in mind that proponents of either theory are well aware of human evolutionary history and understand that current evidence suggests the first upright primates DID come from Africa (see last link)
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IT WAS FOUNDED IN AFRICa> LIKE THATS WHERE IT WAS FIRST. IF THAT HELPS? VOTE ME AS BEST ANSWEr.