ALGERIA CULTURE IN AFRICA

THE CAVE PAINTINGS ARE FOUND AROUND NORTHERN TAMARASSET AND DEPICT EVERYDAY LIFE IN PREHISTORIC ALGER 8000 TO 4000 YEARS AGO..  THEY WERE HUNTERS AND IN A SAVANNAH REGION.  THE PICTOGRAPHS SHOW BUFFALO, ELEPHANTS, RHINOCERO AND HIPPOS, ANIMALS THAT ARE NOT THERE TODAY.  THEY PROVIDE A COMPLETE RECORD OF PREHISTORY.

ACCORDING TO SOME ALGERIANS THIS WAS THE SITE OF THE HIGHEST STATE OF THE PERIOD OF MIDDLE PALEOLITHIC. TOOL TECHNIQUES ARE DATED TO 30,000 B.C. AND HAVE HIGH STANDARDSOF WORKMANSHIP.  THE NEOLITHIC ANIMALS AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPED.  IT WAS DEPICTED ON CAVE PAINTINGS.

IN NORTH AFRICA THE NATIVE POPULATION  WAS CALLED BERBER,  THEY WERE TYPICALLY NOMADS BY  ROMANS, GREEKS, BYZANTINE, AND ARAB MUSLIMS.  HOWEVER, THEY PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE ALGERIA HISTORY.

BY 600 B.C. THE ALGERIANS HAD SMALL SETTLEMENTS AT NORTH AFRICA COAST.  THEIR POPULATION INCREASED DURING THE BERBER CIVILIZATION.  THEY HAD TRADE, AGRICULTURE, AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION  IN SEVERAL STATES.  THEY HAD A WAR IN 238 B.C.  CARTHAGE WAS DESTROYED BY 116 B.C.

IN MID 7TH CENTURY A LARGE NUMBER OF LOCALS CONVERTED TO THE NEW FAITH.  AFTER THE FALL THE  UMAYAD AROLE DYNASTY, BERBER DYNASTIES EMERGED;

ALGERIA WAS HOME TO MANY CULTURES.  ALGERIA IS A SEMI PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC CONSISTING OF 48 PROVINCES AND 1541 COMMUNES.  THEY HAVE 37 MILLION PEOPLE ITS ECONOMY IS OIL BASED  SUFFERING FROM DISEASE.  ALGERIA IS THE 10TH LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.

THE COUNTRY NAME IS DERIVED FROM AN ARABIC BERBER RELATED  TO ZIRID DYNASTRY.

U.S. SHIPS PAID THE TRIBUTE AND DEMAND BY THE RULERS OF ALGIERS, TUNIS, TRIPOLIAND MORROCO BY PREVENTING ATTACKS ON THEIR SHIPS BY MEDITERRANEAN FOLKS  NOT COVERED BY GREAT BRITAIN.  DESPITE THE US SIGNED TREATY OF $10 MILLION WITH ALGERIAN FOLKS THERE WAS 12 YEARS OF ATTACK FREE SHIPPING .  IN 1830 THE FRENCH CAPTURED ALGIERS AND THEIR POPULATION DECLINED ABOUT 1/3 FROM 1830 TO 1872.

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