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5,000 Years Ago in East Africa

Along the Nile valley, farming villages began to grow into town, centred on local storehouses to keep crops safe for future use. The inhabitants of these towns then eventually began to build walls around them for protection, creating the first true cities in the area.

In one region, called Nubia, the villages and towns along the upper Nile were beginning to join together form a centralized kingdom, which would be a rival to Egypt in both power and culture.

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