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ca. A.D. 300 Development of the Geez
Script
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A.D. 200–350 Introduction and spread of
Christianity in North Africa
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397 Augustine begins Confessions
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500–1495 Rise of the west African savanna empires: Ghana in the
northwest (ca. 500), Kanem around Lake Chad (ca. 900), Mali (ca. 1200),
and Songhay in the Middle Niger (ca. 1495)
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600–1000
Introduction and spread of Islam in East and West Africa
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13th–14th centuries Epic of Son-Jara
1352 Arab Chronicles: Ibn Battuta on ancient Mali
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1300–1500 Rise of the Kongo kingdom on the lower Zaire (Congo)
River, including present-day Angola, in central Africa; rise of Benin
in west African forest belt, in the hinterland of the Niger delta (ca.
1400); and rise of Monomotapa ("Great Zimbabwe") in southern Africa,
north of the Limpopo River (ca. 1500)
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ca. 1513 Leo Africanus, History and Description of Africa
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1450–1600 Portuguese explorers on the west and central African
coasts
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late 16th–mid 19th century The Atlantic slave trade
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