
The first stone pyramid in Egypt is built by an architect, Imhotep. This practice spreads to North Africa and Ancient Egypt The Kingdom of Kerma became one of the Hyskos allies at the time they invaded Egypt at the beginning of the country’s Second Immediate Period.īy this time, the earliest forms of literacy in the world, hieroglyphic writings of ancient Egypt are invented.Īncient Somalis domesticate camels. Smaller sacral kingdoms continued to exist but they soon became consolidated into larger kingdoms- two of which included the Kingdom of Sai and the Kingdom of Kerma. Ta-Seti ( Nubian civilization), one of the first sacral kingdoms in the Nile is invaded by Egypt and destroyed during the First Dynasty. They engaged in tax collecting and the organizing of labour for major public works such as the building of irrigation systems and pyramids. Bureaucracies become more centralized under the pharaoh’s administration, run by viziers, tax collectors, generals, artists and technicians. Two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt emerge into one.Įgypt is consolidated into one political entity under the pharaoh, Narmer, who is the principal administrator of the kingdom. The continent is hit by a dry phase, drying up the Sahara region and causing the population that settled there to move away.

Later, donkeys also become domesticated, later spreading the practice to southwest Asia.

The animals started to be used for meat, milk and transportation for the people. The domestication of sheep, goats and cattle precede the agricultural revolution. In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use of pottery and use it for tools and dishes.Īgriculture develops in the Middle East with focus on barley and wheat. Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world
