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Kassoum kone 1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Polity Africa

Akan

Attested 1492 CE – 1700 CE

Ethnic group in West Africa

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 6 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Akan appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1492 CE 6 snapshots 1700 CE
1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE

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

Libya

Founded 1551 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Wars of the Mali Empire

1235 CE – 1599 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1492 CE and 1700 CE.

1495 CE Tomb of the Askia 1500 CE Royal Hill of Ambohimanga 1529 CE Ethiopian–Adal War 1550 CE Oyo Empire Wars 1575 CE Luanda 1591 CE Moroccan Invasion of Songhai

And in the rest of the world

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

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Maya chiefdoms and states Polity · Americas 2000 BCE – 1521 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Christopher Columbus Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean 1451 CE – 1506 CE Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Akan peopleKassoum kone 1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • AmbohimangaLemurbaby · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Robben IslandSouth African Tourism from South Africa · CC BY 2.0
  • Flag of LibyaVarious The SVG code is valid. This vector image was created with a text editor. · Public domain