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Circa 500 AD first Arab traders stopped on the coast of East Africa and began to colonize this area.
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Around 500 AD when the Arabs were settling in they captured natives and began a slave trade.
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During the 11th and 12th centuries, Arab and African tradition blended together to create the Swahili civilization.
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Swahili civilization dominated the coast of eastern Africa from the 1000s and still in modern times.
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The Swahili Coast civilization reached it’s peak 1200s & 1300s but started to decline when people from Portugal began to colonize.
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In the 14th century Persian traders founded the city of Mombasa
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Battuta visited East Africa in 1331 at a time when the Swahili civilization was at its peak.
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Between 1300 and 1500 the Swahili civilization had at least 60 towns and cities along the coast.
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The first Portuguese vistiors arrived to the coast of east Africa at end of the fifteenth century
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Arrival of the portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama, signaled new era of foreign rule on the swahili coast
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Mombasa was almost completely destroyed by a large fleet lead by Fransico de Almeida.
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Portuguese were finally removed from power by combined forces form Oman and Pate, but they stayed in Mozambique until the late 20th century
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During the 1700s a great tradition of Swahili writing had appeared.
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In the mid 1700s: an austere islamic religious movement came about around much of western africa.
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In the early 1800s the slave trade intensifies to meet labor demands.
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The economy in the Swahili Coast suffered when Great Britain ended the slave trade at some point in the 1800s.
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The Mazrui clan from Mombasa that had taken power in the Swahili Coast was driven out by Omani forces.
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In the late 1800s, after the Scramble for Africa, the hegemony of the sultan of Zanzibar gave in to European power.
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By 900 AD Eastern African coast became a prosperous commercial center.
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Pate, Lamu, and Malindi and other cities were founded in the 9th century