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Event trade Africa

Koumbi Saleh

300 CE – 1240 CE

Probable capital of the Ghana Empire and the largest city in West Africa during the trans-Saharan gold trade.

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Standing in 300 CE

Records whose own span was running in this exact year.

Egypt Polity · Middle East 3000 BCE – 2026 CE Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Khoiasan Polity · Africa 1500 BCE – 1500 CE Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Twelve Apostles Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing Shark Bay Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing

Around the same time

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300 CE Temple of the Tooth 300 CE Gamla Uppsala 300 CE Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 300 CE Göreme Open-Air Museum 304 CE Wars of the Sixteen Kingdoms 306 CE Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy