The territory of modern Angola has been populated with the person already during a neolith epoch (4-5 thousand years BC) are found In desert Namib the rock paintings probably left grandparents modern áóøìåíîâ. In the middle of 1 thousand AD on territory of Angola the tribes belonging to íåãðîèäíîé (or negro-avstraloidnoj) race migrated from the central areas of Africa. In the end of 1 - the 2 thousand beginning AD in territory of Angola there were the first state î6ðàçîâàíèÿ. In XV century in a river basin Cuanza, occupied the state Jadongo cî capital in Mbansa-Kabasa has arisen the people àìáóíäó, at coast of Atlantic ocean. Its governor carried a title “íãîëà” (from which there was a country name - Angola). In a river basin of Kasai there was a state of Lund.In 80th of XV century the coast of Angola had Portuguese colonizers (expedition of Diogu of Caen, 1484-1486). Since 1492 Catholic missionaries here operated. In 1575 the Portuguese conquerors had been put a fortress the Dignity-Migel (modern Luanda). The territory of Angola has been transformed by the Portuguese colonizers into a labour source, whence on a sugar cane plantation in Brazil some millions slaves have been taken out. The people of Angola showed a persistent resistance to the Portuguese colonizers in which result the gain of Angola was completed by them only in the beginning of XX centuryOn territory of Angola declared claims and other colonial powers of the Western Europe. Only under contracts with Belgium (1885), France (1886), (1886) and England (1891 and 1899) them have been recognised the rights of Portugal and are defined by Germany of boundary of its possession in Angola.