1. History of Sub-Sahara Africa

2. Dating back as far as 3.5 million years ago!
Cradle of Humankind
Dating back as far as 3.5 million years ago!

3. The oldest fossils of the early ancestors of humankind.
Africa is known to be the cradle of humankind as it is in Africa that the oldest fossils of the early ancestors of humankind were found. The Cradle of Humankind sites are located in different parts of Africa, namely in South Africa (Guateng and North West provinces) and Tanzania (The Olduvai Gorge). These sites are considered World Heritage sites.

4. Great Rift Valley Video
Welcome to Kenya's Great Rift Valley, considered by many to be the cradle of humanity. This part of the valley, called Shompole, borders Tanzania and is home to lions, wildebeests, buffalo and other African wildlife. About 2,000 Maasai also live here.
Some 20 million years ago, the earth's crust weakened and tore itself apart creating a jagged rift, thousands of kilometers long, across the African continent. The land on either side erupted creating great volcanic mountains, while the valley floor gradually sank into a low flat plain.

5. Ghana Empire Mali & Songhai
The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th to the continuous geographic trench, approximately 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) in length, that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa.
Ghana Empire Mali & Songhai
Timbuktu- Muslim Empire

6. Gold Salt Trade Western Empires
Ghana- the Gold Empire
Ghana is the center of trade for many reasons; some examples were that they had a lot of gold. In that time, gold and salt were of equal value, and salt was only available if the people traded with the North African people across the Sahara. They not only traded gold, but also taxed people with it.

7. East African Empires- Axum 1st empire to convert Christianity
Kingdom of Aksum

8. Great Zimbabwe Empire & Central Africa

9. Diviners, healers, ancestor worship & Animism
Tells the future, Cowrie shells
Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical (or material) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment
Diviners are chosen by the ancestors to heal the living. Bad dreams, pains, or fainting are signs that the ancestors have chosen a person to become an izangoma, who will then train to become a medium between the living and the dead.