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Polity Africa

Tuaregs

Attested 900 CE

Berber ethnic group of the Sahara desert

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

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

900 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

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Rwenzori Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana Empire Wars

750 CE – 1076 CE

Trade route · Africa

Indian Ocean Trade

900 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 900 CE and 900 CE.

900 CE Zanzibar 900 CE Mombasa 900 CE Kilwa Kisiwani 900 CE Sofala 900 CE Mogadishu 900 CE Toltec Wars

And in the rest of the world

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

Grand Canyon Landmark · Americas 3000 BCE – still standing Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Byzantine–Arab Wars Conflict · Europe 629 CE – 1180 CE Al-Razi Figure · Rayy / Baghdad / Persia 854 CE – 925 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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