Expansionist Kingdom of Merina
Attested 1000 CE – 1815 CE
1540–1897 kingdom in Madagascar
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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 16 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Expansionist Kingdom of Merina appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.
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.
Landmark · Africa
Volubilis
300 BCE – 1200 CE
Polity · Africa
Angola
Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CEConflict · Africa
Ghana–Almoravid Conflict
1054 CE – 1083 CETrade route · Africa
East African Coastal Trade
900 CE – 1505 CE.jpg/500px-Conical_Tower_-_Great_Enclosure_III_(33736918448).jpg)
Landmark · Africa
Great Zimbabwe
1100 CE – still standingPolity · Africa
Khoiasan
Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CEConflict · Africa
Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars
1100 CE – 1629 CETrade route · Africa
Atlantic Middle Passage
1600 CE – 1850 CEDated moments inside this span
Events the timeline places between 1000 CE and 1815 CE.
And in the rest of the world
Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.
Image credits4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
- Merina Kingdom flagAmit6 · Public domain
- VolubilisSubhros · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Flag of AngolaOriginal: Henrique de Carvalho Santos Vector: SKopp · Public domain
- Great ZimbabweAndrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0
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