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Asante

Attested 1715 CE – 1900 CE

Former Akan empire centred on present-day Ghana

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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 Asante appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1715 CE 6 snapshots 1900 CE
1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE1880 CE1900 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

St. George's Cathedral

1848 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Landmark · Africa

Christ Church, Zanzibar

1879 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Oyo Empire Wars

1550 CE – 1836 CE

Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1715 CE and 1900 CE.

1801 CE First Barbary War 1804 CE Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate 1815 CE Mfecane (The Crushing) 1816 CE Rise of the Zulu Kingdom (Mfecane) 1824 CE Anglo-Ashanti Wars 1848 CE St. George's Cathedral

And in the rest of the world

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

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Landmark · Americas 3700 BCE – 1850 CE Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Manila Galleon Trade Trade route · East Asia 1565 CE – 1815 CE Hawaiian Unification Wars Conflict · Americas 1782 CE – 1810 CE Louis XIV Figure · France 1638 CE – 1715 CE Butrint Landmark · Europe 800 BCE – 1800 CE
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