Africa

While Africa is the second largest continent, its people seem to be mostly tribal and of the hunter/gatherer type. The few large cities that dot the landscape of the African continent seem quite poor. It is strange that this is true considering that many scientists believe that the origin of the human race began somewhere in Africa, giving its native inhabitants more time getting to know their land and its properties rather than exploring a new land.
Africa has a wide range of terrain types from the Saharan Desert in the north, stretching to a brief stretch of Savannah, continuing on to the middle of Africa which is dominated by vast jungles, finally getting to a bigger Savannah down to the southern tip. This wide variety of geography gives the people of Africa great distinction. People in the Sahara Desert survive around wells sparsely laid out across the land. Savannah people have to survive through the drastic season changes and violent animals. Jungle tribes have to fight of disease and the various insects that could plague a person daily.
Africa has a wide variety of people to suit its many different landscapes. It seems that nowhere in Africa is very safe, considering there aren't that many people living there. This may answer my query earlier that why Africa was very poor. Its people have to fight for survival every day, giving them little free time to study chemistry, or invent complicated machines. Life in Africa was a fight for survival since the birth of man. It would not be hard to believe that humans succeeded so well because of the trials they faced in their early existance in Africa.