Egyptian Timeline

  • 1400

    Sea voyages

    Long sea voyages
  • 1400

    Trading

    Began trading
  • 1500

    Selling people

    They started selling enslaved people
  • 1500

    Trading posts

    They built trading posts for trading
  • Southern and Eastern

    Southern and Eastern Africa was colonized by 1600s
  • Outlawed Slaves

    They outlawed slavery in the 1800s
  • Colonizing

    They began colonizing Africa
  • Power

    Africans began gaining power over their own lands
  • Divided

    Africa was divided into colonies
  • Early independence

    Independence came at 1910
  • Independent Africa

    Africa gained independence from Great​ Britain
  • Kikuyu

    Kikuyu started a political organization
  • Invaded

    Ethiopia was invaded by Italians
  • Movements

    Africans independence movement started gaining momentum
  • Adopted

    They adopted apartheid
  • Independence

    Africa gained independence
  • Ghana

    Ghana became independent
  • Nigeria

    Nigeria became independent
  • Independence

    Most of Africa gained independence
  • Granted independence

    Belgium granted independence to the Belgian Congo
  • Leader jailed

    The leader of ANC got jailed
  • Kenya

    Kenya gained independence
  • Seized power

    In 1965 the leader seized power
  • Oil-rich region

    Oil-rich region
  • President

    Klerk was the president
  • Mandela

    Mandela was released from prison
  • Voting

    Africans voted together for Mandela to become president
  • Africans killed

    Millions of Africans got killed
  • Civil wars

    Civil wars raged in 2005
  • South Sudan

    South Sudan became independent