Northern Africa Research Paper

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Northern Africa can be an ambiguous term. Northern and North Africa are two different entities. Northern Africa consists of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Western Sahara. North Africa loses certainty because of land and country disputes.
Northern African inhabitants can be traced farther back than one might think. Evidence has been dated back as far as the Pleistocene period. This can be referred to as the Ice Age. It is believed that a large glacier once sat over parts of Africa. It is believed that when this glacier started to melt, that it sent massive amounts of water north towards what we now call the Mediterranean Sea. Because of this, many archeologists believe that the northern parts of Africa once had a much different

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