Africa
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Continent - 2nd largest on our Earth.
Birth place of humans, unless you buy into the UFO theories or think man came from dust.
Egypt peaked early. Slavery was a blight on much of the African continent following European technological ascendancy. Colonialism was a curse, making many African states hodgepodges of groups who hate each other, which is not a recipe for stability. Genocide in the modern era; Uganda and Rwanda. Civil wars in Nigeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia over natural resources such as diamonds and oil.
Also, there's AIDS. Bush thinks the best way to stop that is abstinence-only education. Unfortunately, it fails massively, as a study reported in the 24 September issue of the Economist notes. Bad news.
Africa is the native home to over 2000 language groups, almost 1 billion people, climates ranging from the dryest of deserts, to the thickest of jungles, to ice covered "no one but penguins would live there" zones. And speaking of animals, where else will you find lions, rhinos, great apes, and zebras. It even has its own goat[1].
