african contributions to world civilizations!

Middle Eocene

Also was when the continent

drifted from each other in a matter

of time

According to history humans were originated by monkeys but 130,000 years ago the first human “Lucy” was discovered in Ethiopia

First to have an emerged

civilization

Ancient Nile Valley civilization

Known as Eypt

Taught civilization. Modern people still read literature from ancient

Greece including the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic (meaning long and heroic)

poems by Homer all in ancient Greece

Alexander the great

invaded Egypt so he

can destroy and

conquer. He also led

the first European

invasion of Africa

In September circa 500 - 1000

AD an army of German

tribesmen led by a man who

had served in the Roman army,

met and defeated roughly half

of Rome's troops in the western

empire.

Three great West African kingdoms

that emerged during Europe’s

“Dark Ages”

Statement made by the pope that

decried Spain and Portugal could “reduce

to servitude any infidel”

In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was

written and in 1863 the Emancipation Proclamation

was written.

Civil rights movement ! Martin

Luther King and Malcolm X

were leaders of the civil rights

movement, they believed that

all African Americans had the

right to do the same as the

whites

The NYPD wanted to get rid of the black

panther party, in the 1970’s.

COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter

Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects

conducted by the United States Federal

Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at

investigating and disrupting dissident

political organizations within the United

States. The FBI used covert operations

from its inception, however formal

COINTELPRO operations took place

between 1956 and 1971.[2] The FBI's

stated motivation at the time was

"protecting national security, preventing

violence, and maintaining the existing

social and political order."