The History of Africa: Every Year

The history of Africa and the Middle East from the ancient era to 2016. It should be noted that this video does not cover every year before the year 600.

----------------------------------------------
MUSIC:
African Sunset
James Paget - The Hero
Matthew L. Fisher - Inspirational Africa

[pablodelatorregalvez]

It's amazing how Ethiopia has existed continuously since 900 BC onwards, with only a very brief occupation of Mussolini's Italy. Ethiopia survived all the Arab Caliphates, the Ottoman Empire and even the Scramble for Africa until the late 30's. I guess Ethiopia has been a very powerful civilization, but I guess the fact it's located in very high mountains also helped.

[staticshockk]

Friendly reminder: those places were not empty, but it's history is almost or completely forgotten. Some history is known by the locals, but not the whole world.

[poposapien]

fact : Morocco was the first country to recognize the independence of USA

[Qingep]

Morocco, Ethiopia and Egypt have so much history! ❤️🇪🇹🇪🇬🇲🇦❤️

[EmperorTigerstar]

That scramble of Africa looked so trippy. Great job!

[katzlang]

"Free State"
-Belgium's colony

[mustafafurkan]

United Kingdom at 1979:
Sorry guys, I forgot my jacket.

[zlatoirsimeonov]

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Ghana and Morocco are the grandparents of Africa.

[BazBattles]

It's amazing, how largely unexplored Africa was throughout the centuries.

[lordisen]

Everyone in these comments is talking about Morocco when Ethiopia remained independent from 700 BCE up until a brief occupation by Italy during WWII. Ethiopia is the real MVP

[hermannvonteutoburg]

Portugal: Hey guys I think I fou-
England: MIIIINNNNEEE

[TheUniversewithMohamedMohsen]

I’m from Egypt 🇪🇬 and the first kingdom was made by the first ever pharaoh named Menes so that is a story of how he did it The unification battle of Egypt marked the beginning of the early dynastic period which acted as a stepping stone that led to the creation of the first royal dynasty in (c.3100 BCE) by the first Pharaoh “Narmer” a.k.a“Menes” which means “He Who Endures”. King Menes is credited with unifying Egypt into one peaceful empire as he was able to unite lower and upper Egypt into one single unified country through a massive battle across Egypt. Most of the facts about him in his era and gods like Hathor and Horus were known through the “Narmer” palette which was discovered in 1988 and resides in the Egyptian Museum.

He unified Egypt under one religion and made Horus the official god plus most of the common religious symbols were the Ankh and the Djed pillar, he also built the first unified capital for Egypt called Memphis city. He developed the economic condition by developing trade relations and diplomatic connections with other countries all across north Africa and nearby regions, the constructions of large projects and the military capabilities of Egypt which put Egypt on the right path of being the greatest military and economic force during ancient times.

[hrhyitq]

Egypt and Morroco and Ethiopia are the VIP club of Africa

[HouseOfGoddess]

Do you all see the longevity of the Ghana Empire? That was amazing.

[yassinehakim]

Moroccan kingdom existed since 789 CE, great respect from Iraq

[tutorialesminecraft]

95% of the comments: *Morocco is great Morocco is great Morocco is great Morocco is great Morocco is great Morocco is great Morocco is great*

5% of the comments: Awesome video! Keep it up! :D

[xdkvhwn]

Tunisia : carthage aghalabids fatimids hafsids
Morocco : idrissids almoravids almohads saadis
The best in africa 🇹🇳 🇲🇦 💪

[salmanerabouli]

As Moroccan I feel so proud of my history, so sad of my present so motivate to my future !

[Biobele]

SIDE NOTE:
There has always been people and kingdoms in Africa before recorded history.
Ghana shown in 600bc for example was only known because they traded gold with the Arabs and an Arab merchant wrote about his trades their and when the French invaded the Arabs they found his write ups about Ghana. It doesn’t mean Ghana empire started in 600bc it also doesn’t mean that was the first empire or kingdom in that part of Africa.

[braixenboi]

Africa: (exists)
Europe: "it's free real estate!"