Timeline: African Tribes

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Hausa

500s-1800s Located in present day Nigeria and Niger.
b. Hausa language was spoken by more than 22 million people.

Period: 500 to Mar 28, 1880

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Mar 28, 1000

Kilwa

11th to 15th century, in present day Tanzania
Was a large empire built in the Iranian Bazrangids. This civilizations had many rock scripts.

Mar 28, 1100

Yoruba

The Yoruba took place throughout the 12th and 14th century
The Yoruba were very skilled weivers. They also had pets and the named them.

Mar 28, 1100

Great Zimbabwe

1100-1400 in present day Zimbabwe
One of its most prominent features were its walls, some of which were over five metres high and which were constructed without mortar. The walls that they made took over 300 hundred years to build
Mutapa

Mar 28, 1230

Mali

1230-1600 Located in present day Mali.
The people of the Mali empire were called Manden. One of the Mali emperors ruled for only 12 years.

Mar 28, 1340

Songhai

1340-1591 Located in present day Niger and Burkina Faso.
Largest empire Africa has ever had. They had 18 different emperors.

Mar 28, 1430

Mutapa

1430-1760
Was a Shone kingdom which stretched between the Zambezi and LImpopo rivers of Southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Its founders are probably culturally and politically related to the builders who constructed Great Zimbabwe.

Mar 28, 1440

Benin

The Benin empire was from 1440–1897, it was located in present day Benin
There was about 36 know emperors of this civilization.The first European travelers to reach Benin were Portuguese explorers in about 1485