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Polity Africa

Shoa

Attested 1279 CE – 1400 CE

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

The atlas draws the world at 3 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Shoa appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1279 CE 3 snapshots 1400 CE
1279 CE1300 CE1400 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

Sijilmasa

757 CE – 1393 CE

Polity · Africa

Merinides

Attested 1279 CE

Conflict · Africa

Wars of the Kingdom of Kongo

1390 CE – 1709 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Mapungubwe

900 CE – 1300 CE

Polity · Africa

Abdelouadides

Attested 1279 CE

Conflict · Africa

Mali Empire Conquests

1235 CE – 1340 CE

Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1279 CE and 1400 CE.

1390 CE Wars of the Kingdom of Kongo 1280 CE Wairau Bar 1280 CE Wieliczka Salt Mine 1282 CE War of the Sicilian Vespers 1293 CE Wars of Majapahit 1296 CE Wars of Scottish Independence

And in the rest of the world

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

Lighthouse of Alexandria Landmark · Middle East 280 BCE – 1323 CE Ottoman Empire Polity · Europe 1299 CE – 1922 CE Polynesian Eastward Voyaging Trade route · Americas 700 CE – 1300 CE The Crusades Conflict · Middle East 1096 CE – 1291 CE Dante Alighieri Figure · Florence 1265 CE – 1321 CE Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE
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