This society developed into the first black African empire: the Kushite/Mer öe empire, which lasted roughly from 800 b.c.e. As Egyptian society began to decline around 1000 b.c.e., people living further south along the Nile River started building a culturally independent society. Some of the world's first great empires originated in northern Africa around 4000 b.c.e., when Egypt began to develop. From prehistoric Africa, humans spread to populate much of the world by 10,000 b.c.e. Protohumans, as early humans are known, evolved about 2.5 million years ago and had larger brains and stood nearly upright. ![]() The earliest stages of human evolution are believed to have begun in Africa about seven million years ago as a population of African apes evolved into three different species: gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans.
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