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Polity Africa

Bantou

Attested 800 CE – 1500 CE

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How these dates were made

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

The atlas draws the world at 10 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Bantou appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

800 CE 10 snapshots 1500 CE
800 CE900 CE1000 CE1100 CE1200 CE1279 CE1300 CE1400 CE1492 CE1500 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

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Fatimid Caliphate

909 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Trade route · Africa

Indian Ocean Trade

900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 1500 CE.

900 CE Zanzibar 900 CE Mombasa 900 CE Kilwa Kisiwani 900 CE Sofala 900 CE Mogadishu 1075 CE Mapungubwe

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 Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Silk Road Trade route · East Asia 200 BCE – 1450 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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