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Polity Africa

Lunda

Attested 1530 CE – 1900 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 Lunda appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1530 CE 10 snapshots 1900 CE
1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 CE1815 CE1880 CE1900 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

Robben Island

1658 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Algeria

Founded 1900 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Trade route · Africa

Atlantic Middle Passage

1600 CE – 1850 CE

Landmark · Africa

Sofala

900 CE – 1600 CE

Polity · Africa

Angola

Attested 1815 CE – 2026 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Landmark · Africa

Gedi Ruins

1100 CE – 1600 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1530 CE and 1900 CE.

1550 CE Oyo Empire Wars 1575 CE Luanda 1591 CE Moroccan Invasion of Songhai 1684 CE Rozvi Empire Wars 1801 CE First Barbary War 1804 CE Fulani Jihad / Sokoto Caliphate

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Canada Polity · Americas Founded 1815 CE · attested to 2026 CE Venice–Constantinople Route Trade route · Europe 800 CE – 1600 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Nicolaus Copernicus Figure · Poland / Prussia 1473 CE – 1543 CE Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Landmark · Americas 3700 BCE – 1850 CE
Image credits 5 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Robben Island South African Tourism from South Africa · CC BY 2.0
  • Flag of Algeria Original: National Liberation Front of Algeria Vector: SKopp · Public domain
  • Sofala Mallet · Public domain
  • Flag of Angola Original: Henrique de Carvalho Santos Vector: SKopp · Public domain
  • Ruins of Gedi Mgiganteus · CC BY-SA 3.0