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Polity Africa

Islamic city-states

Attested 1000 CE – 1600 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 Islamic city-states appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1000 CE 10 snapshots 1600 CE
1000 CE1100 CE1200 CE1279 CE1300 CE1400 CE1492 CE1500 CE1530 CE1600 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

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 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

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1000 CE and 1600 CE.

1075 CE Mapungubwe 1100 CE Kanem-Bornu Wars 1100 CE Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars 1100 CE Great Zimbabwe 1100 CE Timbuktu 1100 CE Gedi Ruins

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 Hai Gaon Figure · Babylonia (modern Iraq) 939 CE – 1038 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
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