Somali City States

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Greetings all, I like these guys also, AE LEARNING, they put out some pretty good info on the African past, great for entry level folks to familiarized themselves, Kool bird's eye views of fauna and flora.

The vid opened up with the Kingdom of the long lived Macorbians, these city states along the Somali coast, prefigured the Swahili city states,at a later date , they were early independent international sea-fearers, one surprise for me, was the suggestion that they domesticated the one humped camel, we know folks of the Red Sea hills domesticated the donkey,but the camel??..I need to double checked that.
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Origin, distribution and population status
© AU-IBAR. Figure 1: Women of the Turkana tribe milking a camel.© AU-IBAR. Figure 1: Women of the Turkana tribe milking a camel.The dromedary or one humped camel (Camelus dromedaries) is one of the largest mammalian and domestic ungulates that transverses the earth’s terrain and a common feature of the arid areas of Africa. The unique name is coined from old French and Late Latin words dromadaire and dromedarius respectively, which originated from the Greek language dromas meaning runner or running. As history would have it, dromedaries were first domesticated in the horn of Africa and Southern Arabia in 3,000BC. This camel population is popularly referred to as the “ship of the desert” due to its extensive use in human transportation and ancient trade of goods across the Middle East and North Africa. The estimated camelid population in the world is estimate at 23 million with atleast 90% being dromedaries.

www.au-ibar.org/2012-10-01-13-08-42/features/series/know-your-animals-series/dromedary-camel-camelus-dromedarius

Ok, after browsing more than a couple of sources, it seemed, that the one humped camel,shared domistification South Arabia and Somalia.