Africa Timeline

By katiecorrell
  • Period: Jan 1, 700 to Jan 1, 1100

    Ghana

  • Period: Jan 1, 800 to Jan 1, 1550

    Mali

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Songhay

  • Jan 1, 1400

    Exploration of Africa

    The geography of North Africa has been well known since classical antiquity in Greco-Roman geography.
  • Jan 1, 1487

    Age of Exploration

    It was when exploration started in the late 1400's and continued to the early 1700's.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Atlantic slave trade

  • Asante

    It was a kingdom that occupied the area that is now Ghana.

  • Arkwrights water frame

    It was a water powered device created by Richard Arkwright.

  • The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin released a book called On Origin of Species. He said that all animals evolved into what they are now over millions of years.

  • Survival of the fittest

    Survival of the fittest is a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection.
  • Period: to

    Partition of Africa

    The Partition of Africa was the invasion, occupation, division, colonization and annexation of Africa by European powers.