Africa

Africa (from Lat. Afrĭcus2) is the third continent of the world by land area. Bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, west by the Atlantic Ocean, south to the junction of the Atlantic andIndian Oceans and the east by the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Although it has a total area of ​​30,272,922 square kilometers (621,600 insular mass), which represents 32% of total land, the population of onebillion people, less than 15%. The continent is divided into 54 countries, all of them memIt is believed that Africa is the cradle of humanity and from there came the successive speciesof hominids and apes that gave rise to humans and have been expanding to other continents, including Homo sapiens sapiens190,000 years ago near .
According to the Greek historian Herodotus (484 BC.), A Phoenicianexpedition sponsored by Pharaoh Necho II (616 BC.) Circumnavigated the African contine The origins of trade between the west and central Africa and the Mediterranean basin are lost in prehistory. Thefirst historical accounts dating back to antiquity and have organized the nomadic trade betweenLeptis Magna and Chad. This trade experienced its first boom in the first century. C. with the rise of theRoman Empire. Mostly traded with gold, slaves, ivory and exotic animals for circuses in Rome in luxury goods exchange with Rome. In fact this is the time in which it exploits the very nameof Africa. After the defeat of Carthage by Rome in the Third Punic War established the Roman province of Africa cover about Tunisia today. It was a territorial generalization of the province which gave name tothe whole continent. Also crucial was the increased use of the camel from the first century in North Africa.
From the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa. The caravan trade and Islamicexpansion fuel the establishment of new relations between the "two Africa’s”. Not for the first time.bers of the African Union, with the exception of Morocco. The Kanem-Bornu Empire existed in Africa...