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Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0
Landmark Africa archaeological World Heritage

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Medieval stone ruins, capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe

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Great Zimbabwe on Wikipedia.

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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–1000 CE)
  2. Great Zimbabwe (1100 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Mwenemutapa (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1900 CE)
  5. Rhodesia (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Southern Rhodesia (1920 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Zimbabwe (1994 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

1500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1100 CE and 2026 CE.

1100 CE Kanem-Bornu Wars 1100 CE Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars 1100 CE Timbuktu 1100 CE Gedi Ruins 1121 CE Almohad Conquests

And in the rest of the world

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

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Al-Ghazali Figure · Khorasan / Seljuk Empire 1058 CE – 1111 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Great Zimbabwe Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Volubilis Subhros · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flag of Algeria Original: National Liberation Front of Algeria Vector: SKopp · Public domain
  • Ambohimanga Lemurbaby · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Flag of Angola Original: Henrique de Carvalho Santos Vector: SKopp · Public domain