Important Events

  • Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1200

    Ghana's Trading Empire

  • Period: 527 to 565

    Justinian

  • Period: Jan 1, 600 to

    Spread of Islam in Africa

  • Jan 1, 610

    Muhammad recieves the message to become a prophet

  • Jan 1, 610

    Eastern-Roman Empire

    Now known as the Byzantine Empire
  • Period: Jan 1, 610 to Jan 1, 632

    Gabriel continues to reveal God's messages to Muhammad

  • Jan 1, 622

    Muhammad and his followers left on a journey to Makkah called the hijrah

  • Jan 1, 624

    Fighting breaks out between Muslims and teh Makkahs

  • Jan 1, 644

    Conquer NW Africa

  • Jan 1, 670

    Conquer Middle East

    Persia and Iraq
  • Jan 1, 674

    Lose Attack on Constantinople

  • Period: Jan 1, 700 to

    Trans-Saharan trade

  • Jan 1, 711

    Conquer Spain

  • Jan 1, 716

    Lost Constantinople seige

  • Jan 1, 732

    Lost Battle of Poiters, France

  • Jan 1, 750

    Abbassids Conquer Umayyads (Baghdad)

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Byzantine Empire at its peak

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Ghana dominates trade routes

  • Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1200

    Ghana was weakened under Muslim Control

  • Jan 1, 1240

    Mande conquers Kumbi

  • Period: Jan 1, 1240 to Jan 1, 1400

    Mali Empire

  • Jan 1, 1312

    Mansa Musa

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Songhai empire

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottoman Tarks take Constantinople

    end of the Byzantine Empire
  • Jan 1, 1470

    Islam in West Africa due to trans-Saharan trade

  • Conquer Jerusalem

  • Dome of the Roack built in Jerusalem

  • Period: to

    Muslims conquered North Africa

  • Period: to Jan 1, 1100

    Ghana's Golden Age

  • Period: to Jan 1, 1453

    Byzantine's Golden Age