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Period: Jan 1, 1220 to Jan 1, 1450
Great Zimbabwe
The Great Zimbabwe Empire is located in modern-day Zimbabwe. Little is known about the Bantu-speaking people who built Great Zimbabwe or how their society was organized. -
Period: Jan 1, 1250 to
Hausa
The Hausa empire was located in Northern and Northwestern Nigeria. They spoke the Hausa language. Also, the Hausa people immigrated from South Africa. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Songhai
The Songhai Empire was located in Western Africa. They had rich and fertile land, which attracted many traders and vendors. In the start of the empire, Muslims were the royal leaders of the Songhai. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Yoruba
The Yoruba Empire was located in Northern and Western Nigeria. It had a wonderfully developed constitution. They were also the first to smith iron. -
Period: Jan 1, 1430 to
Mutapa
The Kingdom of Mutapa was a Shona kingdom which stretched between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers of southern africa in modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Its founders are probably culturally and politically related to the builders who constructed Great Zimbabwe -
Period: Jan 1, 1440 to
Benin
The Benin Empire is located in southwest Nigeria. When the European tried to take over, the Benin people fought back and killed the majority of them. They used brass plaques to show different pieces of history. -
Period: to Jan 1, 1235
Ghana
The Ghana Empire was located in Western Africa. Despite its name, the Ghana people are not connected to modern-day Ghana in tradition, religion, history, etc. The Ghana people had a very advanced form of taxing. -
Period: to Jan 1, 1550
Mali
The Mali Empire is located in present-day Mali. The Rihlah is a written document by a Mali traveler that told of his travels. Griots, or storytellers, of the Mali passed down oral history of the kingdom. -
Period: to Jan 1, 1505
Kilwa
The Kilwa Empire was located on an island which is now part of Tanzania. Their land was once the most popular trading post in Africa. Kilwa was an abandoned kingdom for over 300 years before the Europeans discovered it, and fought over it for a military base.