africa By Lex_YEY Period: 600 to 1800 Africa Timeline Period: 639 to 709 Muslim Conquest of North Africa 641 Seige of Alexandria Period: 656 to 661 Islamic Civil War Period: 800 to 1076 Ghana Empire Period: 800 to 1700 East African Slave Trade Period: 1000 to 1488 Hausa city-states, Yoruba kingdoms, and Benin Period: 1040 to 1076 Almoravid Caliphate Period: 1050 to 1450 Great Zimbabwe Period: 1121 to 1269 Almohad Caliphate Period: 1235 to 1670 Mali Empire Period: 1235 to 1255 The Reign of Sundiata Period: 1312 to 1332 Reign of Mansa Musa 1324 Mansa Musa makes the Hajj to Mecca Period: 1420 to 1500 Mutapa Empire Period: 1463 to 1492 The Reign of Sunni Ali Period: 1464 to 1492 The Songhai Empire Period: 1493 to 1528 The Reign Askia the Great