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Trade route Africa

East African Coastal Trade

900 CE – 1505 CE · 605 years

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Elsewhere in Africa at the time

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Landmark · Africa

Volubilis

300 BCE – 1200 CE

Polity · Africa

Khoiasan

Attested 1500 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · Africa

Ghana–Almoravid Conflict

1054 CE – 1083 CE

Trade route · Africa

Indian Ocean Trade

900 CE

Landmark · Africa

Great Zimbabwe

1100 CE – still standing

Polity · Africa

Empire of Ghana

100 CE – 1200 CE

Conflict · Africa

Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Wars

1100 CE – 1629 CE

Landmark · Africa

Timbuktu

1100 CE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 900 CE and 1505 CE.

900 CE Zanzibar 900 CE Mombasa 900 CE Kilwa Kisiwani 900 CE Sofala 900 CE Mogadishu 1075 CE Mapungubwe

And in the rest of the world

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

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Al-Razi Figure · Rayy / Baghdad / Persia 854 CE – 925 CE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE
Image credits 4 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Volubilis Subhros · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Great Zimbabwe Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ghana Empire Luxo · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Timbuktu Flickr user: Emilio Labrador Santiago de Chile https://www.flickr.com/people/3059349393/ · CC BY 2.0