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Landmark Africa wonder

Mount Nimba

3000 BCE – still standing

UNESCO-protected mountain on the Guinea-Ivory Coast-Liberia border with high-altitude grasslands and unique viviparous toads

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Mount Richard-Molard on Wikipedia.

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Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Leptis Magna

1000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Western Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Trade route · Africa

Trans-Saharan Eastern Route

400 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2026 CE.

3000 BCE Laas Geel 2000 BCE Kondoa Rock Art 1400 BCE Thimlich Ohinga 1000 BCE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 631 BCE Cyrene

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Pyramid of Giza Landmark · Middle East 2560 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sargon of Akkad Figure · Mesopotamia 2334 BCE – 2279 BCE Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing
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