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Polity Africa

Wadai

Attested 1530 CE – 1800 CE

Central African sultanate from 1501 to 1912

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

The atlas draws the world at 7 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Wadai 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 7 snapshots 1800 CE
1530 CE1600 CE1650 CE1700 CE1715 CE1783 CE1800 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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Conflict · Africa

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Trade route · Africa

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1600 CE – 1850 CE

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Sofala

900 CE – 1600 CE

Polity · Africa

Islamic city-states

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Conflict · Africa

Wars of the Mali Empire

1235 CE – 1599 CE

Landmark · Africa

Gedi Ruins

1100 CE – 1600 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1530 CE and 1800 CE.

1550 CE Oyo Empire Wars 1575 CE Luanda 1591 CE Moroccan Invasion of Songhai 1684 CE Rozvi Empire Wars 1532 CE Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire 1532 CE Battle of Cajamarca

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 United States Polity · Americas Founded 1784 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 Hampi Landmark · South Asia 1336 CE – 1565 CE
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