Africa
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Africa is a continent on Earth, and is the second-largest continent after Asia. It is the main setting in the Halo games on Earth.
Background
At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 mi²) including adjacent islands, it covers 6.0% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. There are 46 countries, including Madagascar, and 53 island groups. Most land battles in Halo 3 are in Africa.
Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded to be the origin of Humans and closely related great apes. The discovery of the early hominids have been dated to around seven million years ago (including Sahelanthropus tchadensis), and their more recent possible ancestors: Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus afarensis, Homo erectus, Homo habilis and Homo ergaster. The earliest Homo sapiens (human) fossils were found in Ethiopia, dated ca. 200,000 years ago.
Africa is the most important continent on Earth to seeing what lies beneath its sands.[1]
History
Ancient History
A hundred thousand years ago, a Forerunner called Librarian, landed in Africa, where she created the garden she called Eden. After indexing the world's inhabitants, she also oversaw the burying of the Ark Portal, and spent her last days on Mount Kilimanjaro, before the activation of the Halo Array.
Battle of Earth
- Main article: Battle of Earth
On October 2552, the Covenant found Earth in search of the Portal. They landed only in one spot in the country of Kenya, in and around the city of Mombasa.[2] Regret's forces tried to hold onto and capture the city from the UNSC Defense Force, but failed. Then, his Flagship jumped into Slipspace, damaging the city. After this, more Covenant ships appeared, glassing Mombasa and its surroundings to uncover the Portal to the Ark, which had been buried under the ground for more than a hundred thousand years.
Four weeks later, the uncovering process of the Portal was complete. The Prophet of Truth came to Earth on his Dreadnought, landing in the center of the Portal. The UNSC, believing the structure to be the Ark, attempted to stop the Covenant from activating it, with no effect.[3] Truth and his fleet escaped through the Portal, and a Flood-infected ship arrived just after, followed shortly by the Covenant Separatists. To prevent the Flood from spreading and consuming the planet, the Separatists glassed a large portion of the continent, bringing a bitter and violent close to the battle.[4]
