Empire of Ghana
100 CE – 1200 CE · 1,100 years
Empire in West Africa from c. 200s to c. 1200s
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Ghana Empire on Wikipedia.
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How these dates were made
Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.
These are real dates: Empire of Ghana's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 5 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 300 CE to 700 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.
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
Great Zimbabwe
1100 CE – still standing
Polity · Africa
Morocco
Founded 789 CE · attested to 2026 CETrade route · Africa
Trans-Saharan Western Route
400 CEConflict · Africa
Kanem–Bornu Wars
700 CE – 1846 CE
Landmark · Africa
Timbuktu
1100 CE – still standing
Polity · Africa
Fatimid Caliphate
909 CE – 1200 CETrade route · Africa
Trans-Saharan Eastern Route
400 CEConflict · Africa
Ghana–Almoravid Conflict
1054 CE – 1083 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 100 CE and 1200 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Ghana EmpireLuxo · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Great ZimbabweAndrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Flag of MoroccoDenelson83, Zscout370 · Public domain
- TimbuktuFlickr user: Emilio Labrador Santiago de Chile https://www.flickr.com/people/3059349393/ · CC BY 2.0
- Fatimid CaliphateNourerrahmane (using file uploaded by Omar-toons as template) · CC BY-SA 4.0
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