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Landmark Africa archaeological

Djenné-Djenno

250 BCE – 1400 CE · 1,650 years

One of the oldest known cities in sub-Saharan Africa, a major trading center on the Niger River in Mali

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–300 BCE)
  2. Saharan Pastoral Nomads (200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. No border recorded here in this snapshot (100 BCE–600 CE)
  4. Saharan Nomadic Tribes (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. No border recorded here in this snapshot (800 CE)
  6. Berbers (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1000 CE–1100 CE)
  8. Berber Tribes (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Mali (1279 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Songhai (1492 CE–1600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1650 CE–1700 CE)
  12. Segu (1715 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1815 CE)
  14. Tukulor Caliphate (1880 CE) Border precision: Defined
  15. French West Africa (1900 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  16. French Sudan (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  17. Mali (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Western Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Landmark · Africa

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

200 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Morocco

Founded 789 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Eastern Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 250 BCE and 1400 CE.

250 BCE Jenne-Jeno 200 BCE Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove 300 CE Koumbi Saleh 500 CE Ile-Ife 500 CE Ife

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Colosseum Landmark · Europe 80 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Warring States Period Conflict · East Asia 475 BCE – 221 BCE Yose ben Yoezer Figure · Judea 200 BCE – 161 BCE Chichen Itza Landmark · Americas 600 CE – still standing
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