Levantine Bronze
What did Bronze Age peoples call Africa?

In the days before ancient Greece, when the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Assyrian, and Levantine civilizations were at their peak, how would they refer to Africa as a continent? Later on it would be often called Ethiopia, but that is a word of Greek origin. What was the continent named before the Greeks?

I know the Romans called it "Carthaginia" (now translated as "Carthage") but I am not sure if that was the name for it before them.



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