.  Geographical Africa is a political construct devised to give a name to a part of Asia. Europe and Africa are just peninsulas of Asia.The made up border has no magical influence on everyone - on either side of it  Ham? Really?  From what we know now everyone was formerly an 'African' so if you want you can claim every cultural advance there is...... I think you're pushing the data a bit to hard.  Perhaps it would be clearer if you defined what 'African' means to you.  Geographical Africa is a political construct devised to give a name to a part of Asia. Europe and Africa are just peninsulas of Asia.The made up border has no magical influence on everyone - on either side of it  Ham? Really?  From what we know now everyone was formerly an 'African' so if you want you can claim every cultural advance there is...... I think you're pushing the data a bit to hard.  Perhaps it would be clearer if you defined what 'African' means to you.  