africa

The desert, coastline, rivers, and plateaus of Africa create physical barriers that did not allow for the migration of people or animals into Africa. A disease barrier formed by parasites carrying deadly diseases killed most of the people and animals that did manage to get in Africa. Africa’s wide-ranging and irregular climate made agriculture and travel difficult. The desert, coastline, rivers, and plateaus of Africa created physical barriers that did not allow for the …

…know when to plant gardens. Also, many years of rainfall would erode soil, while many years of drought made it impossible to grow food without a water resource. Travel was not easy either. If a person was traveling through the middle, northern portion of Africa and a drought occurred, it would be likely that they would die of dehydration because most of the natural water resources are far from the mid-land mass of northern Africa.