African Kingdoms Timeline Instructions

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  • Ghana Empire complex societies had existed in the region since about 1500 BCE
    1500 BCE

    Ghana Empire complex societies had existed in the region since about 1500 BCE

  • Period: 1464 BCE to 1591 BCE

    Songhai, the last of these three great empires, remained from 1464-1591 CE. It started under the control of the Mali Empire

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Mali came next and lasted from

  • iron smelting in Nigeria and central Niger. Spreads to rest of West Africa
    1000 BCE

    iron smelting in Nigeria and central Niger. Spreads to rest of West Africa

  • Iron technology spreads to the rest of Africa
    1000 BCE

    Iron technology spreads to the rest of Africa

  • The religion of Islam begins to spread through Africa
    800 BCE

    The religion of Islam begins to spread through Africa

  • Period: 300 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Ghana was the first of the three early African empires,

  • 19th century Muslim reformers changed the political landscape of large parts of West Africa
    19 BCE

    19th century Muslim reformers changed the political landscape of large parts of West Africa

  • By the 18th century the northern part of West Africa was a patchwork of city states and kingdoms
    18 BCE

    By the 18th century the northern part of West Africa was a patchwork of city states and kingdoms

  • Processional cross
    14 BCE

    Processional cross

    Christianity has a long history in Ethiopia, dating from its introduction in Aksum under the reign of King Azana in about A.D. 330. Its spread among the peoples of the highlands, and the arrival of nine monks from Syria
  • Archer figure
    13 BCE

    Archer figure

    Since the 1940s, low-fired ceramic figures and fragments such as this have been unearthed at various sites throughout the Inland Niger Delta region, an area that once had highly developed urban centers. These works are among the earliest known surviving art forms in sub-Saharan Africa. The makers were from the various peoples in the region, but it is not known whether they were men or women
  • Headrest
    11 BCE

    Headrest

    In the Bandiagara cliffs, above the villages now occupied by the Dogon people, carved wooden headrests have been found in burial caves.
  • Ring
    11

    Ring

    Jewelry
  • Ghana capital is believed to have been at Koumbi Saleh on the rim of the Sahara desert.
    1067

    Ghana capital is believed to have been at Koumbi Saleh on the rim of the Sahara desert.

  • Coin
    1148

    Coin

    Historically, currency came in a variety of forms including bars, anklets, armlets, blades, hoes, crosses, neck rings, manillas, rods, ingots, cloth—as well as coins. Some of these objects traded hands regularly; others were only exchanged at important
  • Bottle with four handles
    1229

    Bottle with four handles

    This rare four-handled vase bears the characteristic five-petal rosettes associated with the Rasulid dynasty of Yemen (reigned 1229–1454). Controlling the trade routes to Africa and East Asia