African Timeline

  • Aksum Trade Power
    200

    Aksum Trade Power

    Aksum controled trade network from the mediterean sea to India.
  • Period: 200 to Mar 26, 1400

    African Kingdoms

  • Decline of Aksum
    Mar 26, 600

    Decline of Aksum

    Aksum degan to decline as Arabs took control of the regions trade routes.
  • Egypt Falls
    Mar 27, 600

    Egypt Falls

    Arabs took over Egypt and began to invade areas to teh west of it.
  • Benin
    Mar 27, 1200

    Benin

    Benin rises.
  • Zimbabwe Peak of Power
    Mar 27, 1300

    Zimbabwe Peak of Power

    Zimbabwe reached its peak of power.
  • Period: Mar 26, 1400 to

    European Conquest

  • Portugues
    Mar 27, 1440

    Portugues

    Portugues arive in west Africa
  • Portugual Conquering
    Mar 27, 1500

    Portugual Conquering

    Kilwa and other east Africa city states were conquered and destroyed by the European country of Portigual.
  • Slaves Begin
    Mar 27, 1500

    Slaves Begin

    Slave trade begins.
  • Slaves

    Slaves

    80,000 African slaves were being shipped
  • Period: to

    Independence

  • Slaves END

    Slaves END

    Slave trade ends.
  • South Africa

    South Africa

    Africans in south Africa formed a political party called South Africa.
  • Independence

    Independence

    Only Ethiopia and Liberia remaind independent
  • Pan-Africanism

    Pan-Africanism

    Africans formed a movment called the Pan-Africanism.
  • National Congress

    National Congress

    African lawyers in british west Africa form a Nation Congress
  • Period: to

    Present_Day Africa

  • Senegal

    Senegal

    Senegal becomes independent.