The way out for Africa's future

With our further study of world geography, we have now entered the African plate. When I heard about Africa, my first impression was that the weather was hot, animals were abundant, technology was backward, and plagues were rampant. Simply put, it's a mess. So what's your first impression of Africa?

Maybe someone will think of something different from me, but I think maybe all the words summed up are similar. But Africa is the second largest continent in the world, and most powerful countries rely on the development of human resources because of their vast territory and rich natural resources. Why are they so backward? Let's take a look at its terrain and look at the map:

Let's look at the borders of Africa first. From north to south, first of all, we can see that the borders between Africa and Asia are the Strait of Gibraltar, Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea and Atlas Mountains, but the mountains just block the passage to the sea and cannot communicate with the outside world. Looking at the southern border again, we find that the southern, western and eastern parts of Africa are all Indian Ocean, and there is no powerful civilization to learn from. After analyzing the border, do you understand why it is so backward? Because there is no way to communicate with each other in a civilized way, there is no way to go out to sea to learn other people's experience and understand different things. He is like China in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, we actively closed our doors to the outside world, while Africa passively closed its doors to the outside world because of the terrain, which is also the reason why Africa has been lagging behind.

After talking about his borders, let's talk about Africa's unique natural landscape. The first is the African Rift Valley, the biggest scar on the earth. It is located on the eastern border of Africa, near the sea. Its length is 1.6 of the circumference of the earth, which is extremely deep. This is caused by plate tension. It is precisely because of Zhang Lie that the earth's crust next to it rises as a whole, which makes the topography of western Africa rise as a whole, with an average elevation of more than 700m m, just like the Himalayas, and he has made great contributions to shaping the topography of Africa.

If we continue to observe the topography of Africa, we can find that Africa is divided into four different landforms, namely grassland, basin, plateau and desert. Looking at the map, we can find that most of the deserts are located in North Africa, Sahara Desert, Eastern Desert, Merzoug Desert and Libyan Desert. They have a unique climate. The main characteristics of desert climate are windy and dry, and little rain, which is not suitable for plant growth. Generally, only cacti can survive. So what kind of animals will this desert climate breed? The main animals in the Sahara desert are wolves, lizards, scorpions, snakes and gerbils. From south to north, we can find that most of North Africa is plateau and plain, such as Lower Guinea Plateau, Upper Guinea Plateau, East Africa Plateau and Matabele Plateau. And grasslands include Sudan grassland and Niger plain. These two landforms also belong to the same climate, because there is not much difference between plateau and grassland, and they are both grassland climate. The grassland climate is rainy and suitable for plant growth. The animals here are: snow leopard, argali, sika deer and so on. Talking about the east, west, north and south, we can find that there are plateaus, basins and peninsulas in the east, west, north and south, but of course the basins have the most plains and grasslands. The main basins in Africa are Congo Basin and Upper Nile Basin. The climate here is characterized by rain and lush vegetation? The White Nile and Congo River flow through here. The earliest civilized place is also near here. This climate is called rainforest climate. Because of the unique characteristics of the rainforest climate, it is more suitable for survival than other places. This is another story. Let me talk about what animals are here first: parrots, monkeys, tree frogs, pythons and so on. By analyzing these three different landforms in Africa, we can find that Africa is divided into three extremely different landforms, which have to be said to be a continent with rich products and wonderful scenery.

It is in such a continent with rich products and wonderful scenery that the first person in the world was born. However, I have another question here. The first person in the world was born in the plateau area of Africa, not the rainforest area that is most suitable for human survival. Why? First, let's analyze the climate of these two places. Apes in the tropical rain forest area live comfortably and have no challenges from nature, so they have been standing still and are still a group of monkeys until now. Looking at the plateau again, it is not impossible to survive here, but a group of apes have also been born, but this place lacks water, plants and safe houses, so they need to constantly find ways to optimize themselves and live in this place. But if this alone is not enough to make a group of monkeys evolve into humans, how can we make a group of apes evolve into us now? Look at the terrain changes here. Through human speculation, we can know that at a certain period, great environmental changes have taken place here, which is probably the formation of the African Rift Valley. As mentioned above, the formation of the African Rift Valley led to the formation of many plateaus nearby, so if the environment changes at this time, it is probably not a plateau, but a grassland or plain suitable for the survival of apes. Now is not a good time to live. After the change, some apes decided to escape to the rainforest and settle down there. However, some apes decided to stay here, so they began to evolve themselves. First of all, their evolution is to stand up, so it is easier to see the danger, but the problem comes again, so it is easier for other animals to find it, so they have to continue to evolve. The second step is group cooperation. Several apes get together and use their wisdom and teamwork in the group to avoid the attacks of those beasts and continue to evolve. Freed his hands and began to make weapons and daily tools. Later, they began to have their own independent thinking and curiosity about everything. Slowly, our brains began to develop. This is a process of forced evolution due to environmental changes. Since ancient times, we have been optimizing ourselves, developing and moving towards a better future.

Isn't the process of human evolution amazing? I feel the same way. The evolution from apes to adults is a long process, which includes human sweat and countless magical discoveries. This is a process worthy of our praise. It is said that reading history, learning knowledge and experiencing the decline of life, the knowledge here is inexhaustible for life.

We know that the earliest human being was born in Africa, and his civilization should be as long as the Chinese civilization, and now the economy should be booming, so why is Africa still a mess in your impression? Why is his economy still at the end of the world? First of all, let's speculate from the very beginning of human birth. Now we know that there are three civilizations. The first is farming civilization, the second is nomadic civilization, and the third is maritime commercial civilization. So which one is Africa? Or did he give birth to any of these three civilizations? First, let's look at farming. There are three kinds of landforms in Africa: grassland plateau and desert. Grassland and plateau are suitable for farming, but this civilization was not born. Why? If we want to breed farming civilization, we must first have a suitable climate. Suitable places for farming are generally around 30 degrees north latitude of the earth, while Africa is located near 0 degrees, which is near the equator. Its climate is very dry and hot. The second is that Africa is surrounded by the sea on three sides. With seawater irrigation, tall plants often grow here? At that time, people in Africa could not handle these plants without advanced technology and powerful tools. These two reasons make it impossible to farm here. What about nomadism? First of all, the desert can't graze at all, while the grassland is a tropical rain forest. There are many wild animals in it, and humans can't train them at all, so they can't graze naturally. However, on the plateau, grass doesn't grow, and animals can't provide the most basic food and drink, so it's impossible here, and nomadic civilization can't be born. What about maritime commercial civilization? This place is bordered by mountains on one side and the sea on three sides. These three coasts are bordered by no civilization. Sailors can't sell or buy other civilized things at all, so they can't survive in this way. So how will they survive? Since there is no way to develop civilization independently, we can only choose the most primitive method to collect and hunt. This way of life suits them best, because Africa is not only rich in minerals, but also rich in natural resources. As long as they use these two most primitive methods, they can live comfortably, so when the remaining civilizations in Africa are trying their best to optimize them, they still stay where they are, and there are geographical reasons, because there is no connection anywhere in Africa. Isolated from the world, they can't learn the advanced civilizations of other tribes, so Africa missed the exchange of civilizations. /kloc-in the 0/5th century, Europe has undergone an industrial revolution, and navigation technology has developed rapidly. They just live in groups here in the form of tribes. This also has a great influence on their later development. But is this the only reason why the economy is poor now?

With the development of European navigation technology, they began to travel around the world by boat. They first took a fancy to this land in Africa, attacked the indigenous people and were finally colonized. So why did Europe choose to attack Africa? The simple reason at first was that Africa was closest to Europe, but with the deepening of their attack and colonization, Europe found rich natural resources and mineral resources here, which were very scarce in Europe. That's why they keep, keep hurting here. They first exploited these resources and then shipped them back to the mainland, but it took manpower to exploit and transport them. Europeans were far from enough, so they began to enslave blacks and had black slaves, which caused the current racial discrimination. With the expansion of desire, they set up a violent triangle route, transporting people from Africa to America, then reclaiming land every week to build plantations, and then transporting the final spoils back to Europe for processing, which is very cruel. They persecute others to satisfy their own desires. One of the cruelest events is Rwanda. At that time, Africa was divided into many tribes. How could Europeans expect everyone in these tribes to listen to him? First, they can kill them all, then they won't get any benefits, and no black people can be slaves. This is definitely not worth the loss. So they came up with a second idea. Europeans started a civil war and let them fight each other. Then they were "good people", funded some materials and instilled capitalist ideas. He achieved his goal in this way, but there were countless casualties in the civil war. In this way, Africa has fallen into chaos for hundreds of years. According to statistics, about 654.38 billion people were injured. What kind of process is this? In fact, it is a process of low civilization in Gao Wenming, and the law of nature has always been such a law of the jungle. There is an idiom called "Huai Bi is guilty". He had rich resources and kept them, but he was later attacked or convicted. I think this idiom can describe Africa at that time. In fact, there is nothing wrong with me having resources, but she doesn't want to make progress. It was not until after World War I and World War II that most European countries became defeated countries and did not have the energy to manage here, so Africa became independent. But if they are independent at this time, their economy will certainly progress. Why do they still stay in low-level civilization? There are four reasons. First, because Africa has long been a tribal civilization, it is said that each tribe has different totems and beliefs, and the cultural differences are too great to be unified in a short time. Failure to achieve reunification means that economic development is bound to slow down. The second is the pain of colonialism, because Africa has been under colonialism for a long time, so the losses they have caused in this respect are unimaginable, which is also an important reason for their slow economic development. The third is geographical conditions. As Africa is isolated from the rest of the world, it is also very difficult to develop its economy. The fourth is their perennial civil war. Because of the disunity of the tribes, it is doomed that they will have a civil war and waste people and money. For these four reasons, do you know why they are still underdeveloped despite their economic independence?

I think this is Africa. It is rich in natural resources and topography, but its economy is underdeveloped. It chose the most primitive method, lived a comfortable life, but missed the civilized communication. The economy has never developed. /kloc-In the 5th century, it was colonized by Europe and became a slave. People in Europe may starve and be plundered. I think this is a part of their bloody history. Later, for various reasons, it did not develop in the end. I think this is Europe. They are underdeveloped but rich in resources, and their civilization is not advanced, but they have shown many miracles in the world. History is full of contradictions, and it is hard to look back.