The Cushitic race came about in the Nike valley of Sudan 10,000 years ago when natufian tribes crossing into Africa from the Levant migrated south from prehistoric Egypt and mixed with the Proto nilotic populations.
Natufians who are the ancestors of North African Berbers, Semetic middle east, and Cushtiic east africans. We're the first humans to leave the hunter gatherer lifestyle 12,000 years ago and adopt farming. They brought farming to places like Iraq and Egypt which became the cradle of civilization.
The interesting thing is, when the Cushtic people formed, we took on the Nomadic lifestyle of our Proto nilotic side rather than the farming natufians. Ofc many cushites farmed along the nile valley which is why we get the Nubian/Kush civilisation from. But largely we didn't do it. Cushites expanded all over east coast Africa from southeastern Egypt, to South Africa.
But due to our nomadic life being heavily reliant on livestock. The tset tset fly brought disease which killed them some 1,500 years ago leading to famine and de population among south cushites. The farmer bantus who had recently expanded from Cameroon to all over the Congo jungle too advantage of this sparsely populated land and started leaving their jungles to farm in the great lakes region. The few south cushite left assimilated except one group of surviving south cushites in Tanzania called the Iraqw who live in a small Highlands region north of the country an maintain a population of less than 3~ million.
If the Cushitic tribes practiced widescale farming we could've taken all of Africa no joke. Like nomadic along with small population we snatched all of east coast. For much of our history we were the only pastoralists farmer peoples in Africa rest were hunter gatherer and sparse populated until bantu discovered farming. We had thousands years to take over all of Africa. If only...
Natufians who are the ancestors of North African Berbers, Semetic middle east, and Cushtiic east africans. We're the first humans to leave the hunter gatherer lifestyle 12,000 years ago and adopt farming. They brought farming to places like Iraq and Egypt which became the cradle of civilization.
The interesting thing is, when the Cushtic people formed, we took on the Nomadic lifestyle of our Proto nilotic side rather than the farming natufians. Ofc many cushites farmed along the nile valley which is why we get the Nubian/Kush civilisation from. But largely we didn't do it. Cushites expanded all over east coast Africa from southeastern Egypt, to South Africa.
But due to our nomadic life being heavily reliant on livestock. The tset tset fly brought disease which killed them some 1,500 years ago leading to famine and de population among south cushites. The farmer bantus who had recently expanded from Cameroon to all over the Congo jungle too advantage of this sparsely populated land and started leaving their jungles to farm in the great lakes region. The few south cushite left assimilated except one group of surviving south cushites in Tanzania called the Iraqw who live in a small Highlands region north of the country an maintain a population of less than 3~ million.
If the Cushitic tribes practiced widescale farming we could've taken all of Africa no joke. Like nomadic along with small population we snatched all of east coast. For much of our history we were the only pastoralists farmer peoples in Africa rest were hunter gatherer and sparse populated until bantu discovered farming. We had thousands years to take over all of Africa. If only...
