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Polity Africa

Bornu-Kanem

Attested 1279 CE – 1815 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 13 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Bornu-Kanem appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1279 CE 13 snapshots 1815 CE
1279 CE1300 CE1400 CE1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 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

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 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

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 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 1279 CE and 1815 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 1529 CE Ethiopian–Adal War

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 Dante Alighieri Figure · Florence 1265 CE – 1321 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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