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Polity Africa

Kanem

Attested 800 CE – 1200 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 5 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Kanem 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 5 snapshots 1200 CE
800 CE900 CE1000 CE1100 CE1200 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

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Fatimid Caliphate

909 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Timbuktu

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Madagascar

Attested 1000 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Trade route · Africa

Indian Ocean Trade

900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 1200 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.

Gyeongju Historic Areas Landmark · East Asia 57 BCE – 935 CE Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Varangian Trade Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1100 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars Conflict · Europe 629 CE – 1180 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Temples of Bagan Landmark · South Asia 849 CE – still standing
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