Countries: Kenya
Kenya is a country in East Africa bordered by?South Sudan?to the northwest,?Ethiopia?to the north,?Somalia?to the east,?Uganda?to the west,?Tanzania?to the south, and the?Indian Ocean?to the southeast.
Around 2000 BC, Cushitic-speaking people from northern Africa settled in the part of East Africa that is now Kenya.?
Beginning around 700 BC, Southern Nilotic speaking communities whose homelands lay somewhere near the common border between Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia moved south into the western highlands and Rift Valley region of Kenya.
Early inhabitants of present-day Kenya were hunter-gatherer groups, akin to the modern Khoisan speakers.?
Khoisan?(or?KhoeSan) is a term for the?indigenous peoples?of?Southern Africa?who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages. The San are among the oldest cultures on Earth.
The arrival of the Southern Nilotes in Kenya occurred shortly before the introduction of iron to East Africa. The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages.
They inhabit?South Sudan?and the?Gambela Region?of?Ethiopia, while also being a large minority in?Kenya,?Uganda, the north eastern border area of?Democratic Republic of the Congo, and?Tanzania.
The Nile River Valley was vital to the success of several ancient civilizations. The ancient Nile River allowed the Egyptian and Nubian Civilization, to emerge from the smaller settlements.
Following the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah, Genesis 10 presents a family tree in the form of a branched or segmented genealogy, tracing the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their descendants. Many of these names become future nations, tribes, lands and cities, known to us from elsewhere in the Bible and from extra-biblical sources: Accordingly, this chapter is referred to as the “Table of Nations.”
In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah.
From these eight people …. Noah, his sons and their wives …? the whole earth was populated.
The first three sons of Ham are traditionally seen as the ancestors of African peoples.?
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