African Sahara Desert History
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The Sahara was once a lush and fertile environment sustaining a diversified human population, fauna, and flora, the Sahara experienced an irreversible process of desertification from 3000 BCE onward.
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The Sahara was once a lush and fertile environment sustaining a diversified human population, fauna, and flora, the Sahara experienced an irreversible process of desertification from 3000 BCE onward.
Since then, two events significantly marked the history of the Sahara which is introduction of camel in the 1st cent. A.D. and facilitated occupation by nomads. Today Sahara is the largest desert in the world covering Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritnia, Morocco..
Niger, Sudan and Tunisia.
Scientists also discover that the Sahara Desert contained the world's largest lake named Mega Chad until it evaporated in just a few hundred years to what we have has lake Chad.
Scientists also discover that the Sahara Desert contained the world's largest lake named Mega Chad until it evaporated in just a few hundred years to what we have has lake Chad.