Africa Timeline

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  • 641

    Siege of Alexandria

    Conquest of Egypt
  • Period: 656 to 661

    Brief islamic civil war

  • Period: 800 to 1076

    Ghana Empire

    Empire that controlled trade routes
  • Period: 800 to

    East African slave trade

    trade of slaves in East Africa by Muslim merchants
  • Period: 1000 to 1500

    Hausa city state, Yoruba kingdoms, and Benin

  • Period: 1040 to 1147

    Almoravid Caliphate

    North African Berber Muslim empire
  • Period: 1050 to 1450

    Great Zimbabwe

    A city that controlled a trade route between gold field and Sofala trading city
  • Period: 1121 to 1269

    Almohad Caliphate

    More traditional North African Berber Muslim empire
  • Period: 1235 to 1255

    Reign of Sundiata

    Ruler, Ancestor of Mansa Musa
  • Period: 1312 to 1332

    Reign of Mansa Musa

    Muslim ruler with lots of gold
  • 1324

    Mansa Musa makes the Haji to Mecca

  • Period: 1420 to

    Mutapa empire

  • Period: 1460 to

    Songhai Empire

    Empire beaten by Moroccan army in a battle during the 1600s
  • Period: 1464 to

    Mali Empire

    Empire that formed after the fall of Ghana empire
  • Period: 1464 to 1492

    Reign of Sunni Ali

    Military tactician who became ruler through military conquest
  • Period: 1493 to 1528

    Reign of Askai the Great

    General turned emperor who challenged the reign of Sunni Ali's son