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the climate allows for fertile soil and vegetation
Kingdom of Aksum
The primary means of exchange for Aksum merchants was coins. The Aksum people were one of the first to make their own coins.
Ghana. It was the first subsaharan country to gain independence in 1957. No civil war or violence for 55 years
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In the first millennium A.D. the Kingdom of Aksum rose to prominence in India. It minted its own currency and traded with Rome, Arabia, Egypt, and India.
The Kingdom of Aksum was an empire located around modern Ethiopia that lasted from about 100 A.D. to 940 A.D. The kingdom reached many important milestones, and achieved a multitude of things, including a written alphabet. The Kingdom of Aksum was also the first in Africa to fully convert to Christianity, which lead to the present-day Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The Kingdom was also known for being the first African state to issue its own system of coins as currency.
The Portuguese planted the first maritime colonies in Africa. The Dutch planted the first settled colonies in Africa. A maritime colony is a port city and some surrounding territory, but it is not terribly expansive. (Hong Kong until 1999 would be a good example.) A settled colony is a more typical colony type of which the 13 colonies that became the United States would be a good example.
Probably the Khoisan People first then Bantu-speaking People (Migrating from the North) and then European Settlers