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DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC AND THEIR IMPACTS

. This chapter will focus on the different economic levels of development achieved by man from the period of pre-history specifically enlightening on the three-litchis of the continent of Africa up to 19th century. Also to examine the factors that influenced the existed economic activities as well as the impact of such activities on the respective society
The economic activities in pre-colonial Africa
The environment as an entity does influence economic activities and there is a strong relationship between the environment and economic activities. Several economic activities developed amongst the different people of Africa ranging from:
·         Agriculture which involved the growing of crops and rearing of animals.
·         Handcrafts industries which depended on skills or hand to make and produce goods.
·         Mining concerning with the process of extracting underground minerals for man‟s use.
·         Trading involving the buying and exchanging of goods and services.
·         Fishing, lumbering, Hunting and gathering all these differed from area to area. Basing on the environment and the skills that the people living in a given community were gifted with.


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