The people are the earliest known inhabitants of africa's mediterranean coast.
a. ashanti
b. bedouin
c. berber
d. yoruba

The correct answer is - c. Berber.

The Berbers, or as they are calling themselves, Amazighs, are considered to be the earliest inhabitants of North Africa and its Mediterranean coast. These people have faced a lot of pressure to assimilate, especially after the invasion of the Muslims. Most of them did changed their religion, and are Sunni Muslim nowadays, though they are mixing it with some of their old beliefs, but in cultural aspect, they have managed to preserve big portion of their traits and are still practicing them in their daily lives.

From what is known so far by the evidence found, the Berber people have inhabited this region as early as 10,000 BC, which predates even the Ancient Egyptians by far, and there's lots of their art in the caves of North Africa that proves their existence in this region for so long. They have inhabited a large territory, and still are, being scattered throughout most of what is known as the North Africa region of the continent.

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