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570
c. 570 AD, Muhammad was born. He became the Prophet of Islam, one of the world's largest religions.
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Period: 570 to Jun 8, 632
Muhammad's Lifetime
c. 570 AD, Muhammad was born. He became the Prophet of Islam, one of the world's largest religions. -
Jan 1, 613
Muhammad begins to spread the Islamic word
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Mar 27, 622
Muhammad Leave Mecca and goes to Medina to escape from assasanation plot
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Jun 1, 630
People of Mecca accept Islam as their religion after years of fighting.
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Mar 27, 1060
North African Muslims "Almoravids" Invaded Ghana. This begins the fall of Ghana.
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Period: Dec 31, 1235 to Dec 31, 1500
Mali Empire
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Period: Mar 27, 1312 to Mar 27, 1337
Mansa Musa Rules Mali
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Mar 27, 1324
Mansa Musa begins pilgrimage to Mecca
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Period: Mar 27, 1400 to
Songhai
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Apr 27, 1400
Songhai Begins to attack Mali
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Mar 27, 1431
Tuareg Nomads seize Timbuktu.
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Mar 27, 1464
Sunni Ali becomes ruler of the Songhai
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Modern Day Africa
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South Africa is grated independance from the British
British granted South Africa independence in 1910, but gave power only to white people. -
The start of Apartheid
In 1948, the National Party gained office in an election where only white people were allowed to vote. The party began a policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, which means “apartness.” -
Nelson Mandela in prisoned.
Nelson Mandela led a black liberation group that opposed South Africa’s white government and apartheid. Mandela was in prisons for 27 years. -
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Nelson Mandela prison term
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic emerged in South Africa
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Global concern for Ethiopia's widespread Famine
Ethiopia's famine crisis becomes globally known. -
Apartheid Laws change.
White South African yielded to world pressure and domestic violence in 1990 by repealing most of the apartheid laws. Three years later, a new constitution gave people of all races the right to vote, and the following year South Africans elected a black man, Nelson Mandela, as president. -
Rwandan Civil War
Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people. -
World Cup hosted in Africa
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Ghana Controls West African trade routes & establishes a Merchant Tax (increasing Ghana's wealth)
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Muslim Scholars start laying Algebra foudation
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Period: to Dec 31, 1235
Ghana Empire
c. 300 with groups banding together for protection against nomadic herds the Ghana Empire begins c. 800 AD & ends c. 1200 AD partly due to: Invasion, Overgrazing and Internal Rebelion.