Preceden

West Africa and Islamic World

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Pre-Islamic Era

400 BCE - 947 CE

Islamic Era

West African World

Evidence of North Africans bringing back gold from southern forests

400 BCE

Camels were first brought to the Sahara

300 CE

Arab muslims conquer North Africa

639 CE

Ghana's empire dominated the trade routes between North and West Africa

1000 CE

Muslim warriors capture the capital city of Kumbi

1076 CE

Ghana's king regains power, but the old empire had broken apart

1087 CE

A group of West Africans called the Maude conquer Kumbi

1240 CE

Mansa Musa takes over in Mali

1312 CE

Mansa reached Cairo, Egypt after eight months of travel

1324 CE

A Muslim historian and traveler named Ibn Battua cross the Sahara with a trade caravan

1352 CE

Mali appears on a European map of West Africa

1375 CE

The great warrior Sunni Ali becomes the new ruler of Songhai

1460 CE

Muslims in Songhai rebell

1490 CE

Islamic World

Prophet Muhammad is born in Makkah

570 CE

Muhammad began to preach and founds Islam

613 CE

Islam spreads to Southwest Asia

622 CE

Muhammad dies in Madinah after his last pilgrimage to makkah

632 CE

Islam spreads to Spain

711 CE

Islam spreads to North Africa and Southeast Asia

850 CE

Islam spreads to savannahs of Sub-Saharan Africa

947 CE

Ibn Battuta begins his travels of the Islamic world

1324 CE

Marco Polo travels through the Islamic world and on to China

1375 CE

Islamic Turks take over Constantinople

1453 CE

Muslim leader Babur takes over India

1526 CE