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500
Nok Uses Iron Tools
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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1200
Ghana's trading empire
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Period: 527 to 565
Justinian rules the Byzantine Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 600 to
Spread of Islam in West Africa
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Jan 1, 627
Persian war with Byzantine ends
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Period: Jan 1, 627 to Jan 1, 642
Conquered Middle East
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Jan 1, 632
The Byzantine empire
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Period: Jan 1, 632 to Jan 1, 734
Islamic Empire Campaigns
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Jan 1, 644
Conquered Northwest Africa
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Jan 1, 674
Attack on Constantinople by Islamic Empire
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Jan 1, 676
Conquered Persia (middle east)
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Jan 1, 711
Conquered Spain
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Jan 1, 711
Islamic empire fails to capture Constantinople
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Jan 2, 732
Loses Battle of Portes to France
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Jan 1, 750
Abbassids Conquer Umayyads (Baghdad)
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Jan 2, 1007
Turks convert to Islam
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Jan 1, 1050
Ghana Dominates trade routes
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Jan 1, 1076
Almoravids conquer Kumbi
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Jan 1, 1240
West Africa converts to Islam
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Period: Jan 1, 1240 to Jan 1, 1400
Mali Empire rules
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Jan 1, 1312
Mansa Musa
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Jan 1, 1350
Timbuktu
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Jan 1, 1352
Ibn Battale begins recording
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 1, 1550
Songhai Empire
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Jan 1, 1453
Ottoman Empire captures Constantinople (End of Byzantine Empire)
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Jan 2, 1490
Aslia Mohammad Toure
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Jan 2, 1495
Sunni Ali military leader
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Muslims settle in Kumbi
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Period: to
Muslims hold North Africa
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Period: to Jan 1, 1453
Byzantine Empire's peak
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Period: to Jan 1, 1076
Ghana's golden age