Africa Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 700 to Jan 1, 1100

    Ghan

  • Period: Jan 1, 800 to Jan 1, 1550

    Mali

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Songhay

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Exploration of Africa

    Africa is well known as the brith place of humankind. The North and coast of Africa were well known by the Europeans and they were the ones that explored Africa.
  • Jan 1, 1487

    Age of Exploration

    The age of exploration is when Christopher Columbus started to explore. He thought he was going to Asia for spice but instead he found America.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Atalantic slave trade

  • Asante

    The Asante empire took place in the 18th and 19th century. They traded gold and slaves to the english.
  • Period: to

    Arkwright water frame

    Richard Arkwright was the inventor of a modern industrial factory system. He made a cotton machine called the spinning jenny and invented textile machines.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Revolution

    The industrial revolution was a time of industrialazation. This is when the cotton gin was made and factorys and america really started to moderninise.
  • Origin of species

    The Origin of species is a biogeography written by Charles Darwin it explains the theory of evolution.
  • Social Darwinism

    This is pretty much the survival of the fittest. It was declined in the 20th century.
  • Period: to

    Partition of Africa

    The Partition of Africa is also the conquest of Africa. It was under the control of Europe.