The history of Africa begins with the emergence of the human race. According to paleontology, this continent was the place of the emergence of the human race after its development 5-8 million years ago. The ancestors of our modern species appeared between 130,000 and 90,000 years ago. Humans spread successively through migrations out of the African continent. The ancient Egyptian civilization appeared in northeastern Africa 7,000 years ago. With time, different cultures and countries emerged and escaped. 500 years ago, there were prosperous cities, bustling markets, and rising centers of education, which were spread across the continent. And successive European colonizers as traders of slaves and immigrants. And they were sending them by the millions forcibly to build colonies in the Caribbean, North and South America and to work in agriculture.