Timeline: Africa

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Huasa

500s-1800s. Located in present day Nigeria and Niger. Hausa language was spoken by more than 22 million people.

Mar 28, 1100

Kilwa

11th-15th centuries. In present day Tanzania. Was a large empire built in the Iranian Bazrangids. This civilizations had many rock scripts.

Mar 28, 1100

Great Zimbabwe

1100-1400. Present day Zimbabwe. One of its most prominent features were its walls, some of which were over five metres high and which were constructed without mortar. The walls that they made took over 300 hundred years to build.

Mar 28, 1200

Yoruba

12th-14th centuries. The Yoruba were very skilled weivers. They also had pets and the named them.

Mar 28, 1230

Mali

1230-1600. Located in present day Mali. The people of the Mali empire were called Manden. One of the Mali emperors ruled for only 12 years.

Mar 28, 1340

Songhai

1340-1591. Located in present day Mali. The people of the Mali empire were called Manden. One of the Mali emperors ruled for only 12 years.

Mar 28, 1430

Mutapa

1430-1760. Was a Shone kingdom which stretched between the Zambezi and LImpopo rivers of Southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Its founders are probably culturally and politically related to the builders who constructed Great Zimbabwe.

Mar 28, 1440

Benin

1440-1897. It was located in present day Benin. There was about 36 know emperors of this civilization. The first European travelers to reach Benin were Portuguese explorers in about 1485.