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Theodosia Okoh · Public domain
Polity Africa

Ghana

Attested 800 CE – 2026 CE

Country in West Africa

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

The atlas draws the world at 12 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Ghana 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 12 snapshots · 720 years unattested at the widest 2026 CE
800 CE900 CE1000 CE1100 CE1200 CE1920 CE1930 CE1960 CE1994 CE2000 CE2010 CE2026 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

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Sand War (Algeria–Morocco)

1963 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Nigerian Civil War (Biafra)

1967 CE – 1970 CE

Trade route · Africa

Indian Ocean Trade

900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 2026 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 Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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