2000 BC.

The Kingdom of KUSH begins in NUBIA

900 BC.

The KUSH kingdom became independent

from Egypt

600 BC.

The NOK culture begins in northern Nigeria

200 BC.

The NOK culture ends.

2nd century AD

The AXUM kingdome rises to power

320-350 AD

King Ezana rules AXUM and convertes to Christianity

350 AD

The AXUM kingdom overruns the city of the

KUSH kingdom. The area of KUSH ends.

600 AD

AXUM rules part of western Arabia

770 AD

The kingdom of GHANA rises to power in West Africa. Build Soninke people.

800 AD

The IFE kingdom in Nigeria and Kanem-Bornu become prominent

800 AD

Arabs and persians set up first trading posts in East Africa

900 AD

GHANA controls the trade with gold and salt.

Ghana also buys cloth from Europe.

999 AD

Baganda is the first king of KANO in western Nigeria.

1000 AD

The AXUM kingdom collapses as a

new islamic empire from Arabia expands

1043 AD

The MANDINGO EMPIRE of Jrenne founded in West Africa.

1200

Eweka is the first OBA (ruler) in the new founded BENIN kingdom

1240

GHANA becomes part of the new MALI EMPIRE

1307

Mali Empire at its high with TIMBUKTU as capital

1332

Probable year of Mansa Musa`s dead

1335

The SHONGAI rouling dynasty is founded

1450

The kingdom of GREAT ZIMBABWE is at his peak

1440-1480

Reign of the most famous OBA (ruler) of BENIN, Ewuare the Great

1464

SHONGHAI breaks away from MALI`s control

1441

PORTUGUESE ships bring slaves back

from West Africa to Europe

1448

Slaves are sold at the first portuguese trading post in Africa

1493

Askia Muhammad the 1. becoms the

new ruler of SONGHAI at its peak

1502

Spanish take the first african slaves to the plantations in America

         In 1506 a ship from Seviie took 17 Africans

         to the "Indies".  *Picture - (c) ghana-net.com

1506

The KONGO KINGDOM has is first  Christian king, Alfonso 1.

1530

The TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE from Africa to America begins.

1571-1603

Idris Alawma is the new ruler of the empire

of KANEM-BORNU

1591

The SONGHAI KINGDOM is defated by Moroccan, Portugueseand Spanish soldiers

1680

The average plantation in Barbados

has 60 slaves

1681

The American state of Virginia has about 2000 slaves

1700

Peak time for the slave trade. Cities such as Liverpool, Nantes

and Bristol grow rich on the profits.

1730

90 per cent of jamaica`s population are  of african orgin

1780

First campaigners againt slavery

1788

The African Association is set up in London

1795

Munngo Park explores the river Niger

1806

Britain takes control of the CAPE COLONY from the Dutch

1807

HAITI becomes the FIRST REPUBLIC ruled by formals AFRICAN SLAVES

1807

The British slave trade is abolished

1808

Sierra Leone becomes under British control

1835

The Boers (Dutch farmers) leave Cape Colony and

begin the Great Trek north

1843

Gambia is the next african colony for Britain

1852

Livingston starts a four-year journey across Africa,

following the Zambezi River

1858

The first Europeans to see the the Lake Tanganyika

are John Speke and Richard Burton

1860

Lagos (Nigeria becomes a British colony

1878

The ZULU War with Britain.

After six months, thr British ar victorious

1882

Britain takes control over Egypt

1884

The BERLIN CONFERENCE divides Africa

up among seven European contries with no regard for African people, cultures and natural boundaries.

1889

The British conquer the land of matabele, calling it Rhodesia

1891

Northern Algeria becoms part of France.

1891

Tanganyika (now Tanzania) becomes a

German protrctorate.

1893

The French take control over Mali

1895

Kenya is now under British control

1899-1902

The Boer Wars between Britain and the Boer people.

1903

The Gold Coast (now Ghana) becomes British colony

1910

The South African Union is formed

1911

The British coony of Rhodesia is divided into Southern

(now Zimbabwe) and Northern (now Zambia)

1912

Morocco is divided into French and Spanish protectorates

1957

GHANA, formaly known as the GOLD COAST, gained as FIRST AFRICAN COLONY, full independence from Britain

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The big EMPIRES OF AFRICA

KUSH

The first great African civilisations (apart from Egypt) grew up

in Nubia (today northern Sudan around 2000 BC.

Known as the KUSH kingdom.

Around 300 BC., Meroe on the river Nile became the Kush capital

and an importent centre of iron-working.

NOK

Also an other iron-working centre developed in West Africa, northern Nigeria (today),

in about 600 BC. These people, known as the NOK, mined iron and used it

to make tools, farming tools, spears and arrowheads.

The NOK were also known for their Clay sculptures.

The NOK smelted iron ore in a pit furnace made of clay.

Potters used furnaces to fire their Clay skulptures.

AXUM

In northeast Africa, the kingdom of AXUM grow as a main trading country.

(today in Ethiopia)

The main goods were spices, ivory and incence. Major trading partners were

Egypt, Arabia and Persia.

It became by the end of the 5th century AD a mainly Christian kingdom.

GHANA

The big GHANA kingdom, (today Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Senegal),

impressed Muslim and European visitors.

Traders marveld at warriors eith gold mounted swords and shields guarding

the king.

The peak of the GHANA kingdom was in the 10th century when

it controlled salt and gold trade.

MALI

The islamic kingdom of MALI replaced Ghana as West Africa`s most powerful

empire.

The fame of Mali`s ruler Mansa Musa, sread to Europe.

The Mali kingdom was shown on maps as a land glitteringwith gold.

Masks and Statues of the IFE people at the

National Museum of Ghana

IFE and BENIN

The trade in the IFE and BENIN kingdoms made

powerful rulers rich.

Craftworkers of BENIN where scilled in metalworking,

the finest metal sculptures in Africa.

The peaople of BENIN traded with the PORTUGUESE when

their ships began sailin along the West African coast in the 1400s.

AFRICAN EMPIRES and KINGDOMS in 1500

SONGHAI

Africa at this time, was a continent with many kingdoms.

The strongest was Muslim kingdom of SONGHAI.

It controlled trade acrioss Sahara desert.

KANEM-BORNU

Another Muslim kingdom was KANEM-BORNU.

It thrived on trade between northern and southern Africa.

To the east, the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia lay in the heard of a Muslim Africa.

GREAT ZIMBABWE

1100 AD

 the GREAT ZIMBABWE KINGDOM arise.

The settlement of ZIMBABWE in southern Africa was build over 400 years.

The walled citadel of GREAT ZIMBABWE was used by rulers   as administrative

centre. Around 1450 at the peak, this prosperous kingdom was major centre

of religion, politic and trade.

The zimbabwe people used copper and iron, traded in gold.

By 1500 the civilisation, that build Zimbabwe was in decline.