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Polity Africa

Wattasid Caliphate

Attested 1492 CE – 1500 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 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Wattasid Caliphate appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

1492 CE 2 snapshots 1500 CE
1492 CE1500 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

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga

1500 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Portuguese East Africa

1498 CE – 1975 CE

Conflict · Africa

Kanem–Bornu Wars

700 CE – 1846 CE

Trade route · Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE

Landmark · Africa

Tomb of the Askia

1495 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Mozambique (Portugal)

1498 CE – 1975 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Landmark · Africa

Taï National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1492 CE and 1500 CE.

1495 CE Tomb of the Askia 1500 CE Royal Hill of Ambohimanga 1494 CE Italian Wars 1500 CE Surat

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 Ming Chinese Empire Polity · East Asia 1500 CE – 1600 CE Portuguese Spice Route Trade route · Europe 1498 CE – 1700 CE Reconquista Conflict · Europe 711 CE – 1492 CE Christopher Columbus Figure · Spain / Atlantic / Caribbean 1451 CE – 1506 CE Great Barrier Reef Landmark · Oceania 3000 BCE – still standing
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