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Michael (Fihliwe) Denne · CC BY-SA 2.0
Landmark Africa archaeological

Thulamela

1250 CE – 1700 CE · 450 years

Late Iron Age stone-walled settlement in Kruger National Park, linked to the Great Zimbabwe trade network in South Africa

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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–1200 CE)
  2. Great Zimbabwe (1279 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–1815 CE)
  5. Transvaal (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. Rhodesia (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Southern Rhodesia (1920 CE–1960 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. 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

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

1500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Robben Island

1658 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Ethiopia

Attested 1279 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Almohad Conquests

1121 CE – 1269 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1250 CE and 1700 CE.

1390 CE Wars of the Kingdom of Kongo 1421 CE Larabanga Mosque 1464 CE Wars of the Songhai Empire 1495 CE Tomb of the Askia 1500 CE Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

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 Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Sundiata Figure · West Africa 1217 CE – 1255 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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