Africa & the Americas

I found it kind of hard to believe that before when people would refer to Africa during the classical era, that they were referring to the land mass instead of the people.  Many of the people back then were not considered African because many of them were spread out throughout the world already.  People would not generalize them from the point which they were from because Africa was just looked at as a part or land or landmass.  Africans were able to expand worldwide so quickly that its amazing how they were able to spread throughout the entire world so quickly and settle in such diverse cultures.  Many Africans were able to migrate to Eurasia and experience that culture, then later adapt to that culture and create their own version of that culture and integrate it with their own.  For example how North Africa was incorporated into the Roman Empire, even though it wasn't a positive time because the Africans that were integrated into the culture were used as slaves.  But even though the concept wasn't positive, it did play a big part in the Roman Empire that we see even today in our text books, because just imagine if they were not used in such a way, things might have been way different.  Wither it be for the better or worst, we will never know because it was just done that way, but this was a very important part to their society.