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Landmark Africa archaeological

Thimlich Ohinga

1400 BCE – 1900 CE · 3,300 years

Dry-stone walled enclosure complex in Kenya, the largest and best-preserved traditional stone structure in sub-Saharan Africa

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Thimlich Ohinga 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–1500 BCE)
  2. Khoisan (1000 BCE–700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Bantu (800 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Bantu peoples (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Bantu (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1530 CE–1900 CE)
  7. British East Africa (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Kenya (1920 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

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

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 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

Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1400 BCE and 1900 CE.

1000 BCE Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 631 BCE Cyrene 300 BCE Volubilis 300 BCE Bandiagara Escarpment

And in the rest of the world

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

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Moses Figure · Egypt / Sinai / Canaan 1391 BCE – 1271 BCE Petra Landmark · Middle East 300 BCE – still standing
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