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History Main History Main article: History of Africa Mask of King Tutankhamun, in which the boy king is wearing the Nemes. It is believed that the southern or eastern Africa is the cradle of humanity and then come the successive species of hominids and apes that gave rise to humans and which have expanded to other continents, including Homo sapiens ago sapiens about 190,000 years. Throughout antiquity and into the early centuries of the Christian era in the history of North Africa is combined with the Merranean. Meanwhile parts of the developments live Saharan Africa different. According to the Greek historian Herodotus (484 BC), a Phoenician expion sponsored by the Pharaoh Necho (616 BC) circumnavigated the African continent for the first time. The origins of trade between west and central Africa and the Merranean Basin are lost in prehistory.The earliest historical accounts date back to antiquity and have organized the nomadic trade between Leptis Magna and Chad. This trade experienced its first boom in the first century BC C. with the rise of the Roman Empire. Above all traded with gold, slaves, ivory and exotic animals for the circus games in Rome in exchange for luxury goods in Rome. In fact it is at this time which exploits the very name of Africa. After the defeat of Carthage by Rome in the Third Punic War establishes the Roman province of Africa covering about Tunisia today. It was a territorial spread of the province which gave name to the entire continent. A crucial also had greater utilization of the camel from the first century in North Africa. From the seventh century the Arabs invaded North Africa. The caravan trade and Islamic expansion fuel the development of new relationships between the "two Africas. Kanem-Bornu Empire existed in Africa from the thirteenth century and the...