If Africa was so nice then why'd we ever leave?

Question

Was it caveman overpopulation? Why would anyone voluntarily leave a warm climate?

Answer 1

not enght food foor people.and war.

Answer 2

Personally I think it got a bit too warm and dry, and people wanted to move for the type of food and water they wanted at the time. It's really interesting to me to even contemplate it. I sure wish I had a time machine to go back and just see it from a distance!

Answer 3

Because we are curious about what's out there. People probably slowly migrated the same way we today move away from our parents and then our children move away from us.

Answer 4

who LEFT????

Answer 5

Natural migratory patterns of game animals encouraged the people who hunted them to follow them to other areas.  The desertification of the saharah probably helped too, as well as just odd coincedence (nomadic people just happened too leave).

Answer 6

forgive me for saying this but thats a bit of a dumb question.

The continents drifted didnt they. Ever heard of techtonic plates?

Answer 7

people followed where the food(animals) went

Answer 8

I don't know if Africans voluntarily left that continent.  The slave traders went and bought us and our brothers sold us to them, often for trinkets.  Sad, isn't it?

Answer 9

um ask African people?

Answer 10

i wonder what's over that hill?

Answer 11

There is evidence that suggests that when humans left Africa, it was because of environmental pressures. It is believed that a major volcanic eruption caused environmental upheaval throughout the globe; in Africa, it caused severe drought, causing  many animal populations to dwindle. Thus humans had to leave to find new food sources.

Answer 12

who's we? is it your family? how should anyone know what going on in your personal life?

Answer 13

'Cause one of your ancient homeboys sold you out. It was documented other Africans would catch other Africans and take them to traders.

Answer 14

Read your history.

Ppl were "captured & sold like animals" and then forced out.

Answer 15

because of the aids

Answer 16

jimeny learn your facts. the continents were generally in the same placement when the humans moved out of africa.

Also people moved out of africa because there was too much competition in africa for food so they moved out of africa in search of other food. If you mean homosapians though they moved out of africa during a drought wich almost made homosapians extinct in north africa while there was a ice age and the cold climate prevented homospaians from moving on through north. Only the few and creative managed to survive. When the ice age stopped the homosapians passed through europe and then encountered other types of hominid and out competed them. One popular  other hominid they encountered was the neandertals.

Answer 17

We didn't all come from Africa thats just a theory.

Answer 18

Are you African American, or who are you referring to with "we"? Civilization was founded in the middle east- Mesopotamia which is now modern day Iraq...  Very few of us are the descendants of people from the African continent.

Of course as far as africans leaving africa I suppose I would want out too if I lived in a land of abject poverty where a bunch of uncivilized folks were throwing spears and stabbing each other with sharp sticks...

Answer 19

Humans have always been explorers. It's not like some early human in prehistoric Ethiopia said to himself one morning, "I think it's just too warm here; I think I'll take the fam and move to Finland!" People have always moved around for lots of reasons, including searching for food and water, but for others as well. Prehistoric peoples weren't really sedentary (staying in one place for a long time) until after the domestication of plants began to catch on. Plus, humans are especially good at adjusting to different physical environments. We're good at problem solving, and we could prehistorically survive all over the world as a result.

Answer 20

People migrated because humankind is imbued with curiosity, bravery, originality, intelligence and inquisitiveness.

The first people who left may have just been hunting and got lost.  So they set up a new household where they were.

Actually, early man did not realize that he could grow wheat and peaches in his back yard, so he gathered wild-growing edible vegetation and followed the herds of animals for meat.  

You should read the book, CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean Auel!  Besides that one there are four more books in the series, supposedly with another one yet to come.  You would love them.

Answer 21

It has nothing to do with being warm or nice. It's all about moving where the food supply and competition for it takes you and the inherent human need to explore.

Answer 22

Following the herds of animals with "their" dogs. They had no idea of latitude and its relationship with climate, and only travelled relatively short distances during their brief lifetimes. Also, they would not have followed a direct route North, but a wandering path. Not many caves along the way, either. Shelters of sticks covered with skins, probably, like the yurts, wigwams, and teepees still used today. I played chess with someone in Mongolia who still lives in a yurt (they call them a "gur"). The traditional Inuit (formerly misnamed Eskimo's) still use them in summertime.

Answer 23

You never go on vacation and think "me like to live here"?  It not so different back in the day.

Personally, Og think all animals like a gas or 'wind' if you will.  Not stay in one place.  Always want to leave cave, that for sure.  As long as man can find a way to live somewhere, he will.  Remember, the place I stay tonight is not so far away, if i walked here, from where I stay last night.  All change is incremental.

Answer 24

to get away from mom and dad

Answer 25

idk sorry