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Period: 639 to 709
Muslim Conquest of North Africa
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641
Siege of Alexandria
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Period: 656 to 661
Brief Islamic Civil War
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Period: 800 to 1076
The Ghana Empire
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Period: 800 to
East African slave trade
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Period: 1000 to 1500
Hausa city-states, Yoruba kingdoms, and Benin-
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Period: 1040 to 1147
Almoravid Caliphate
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Period: 1050 to 1450
Great Zimbabwe
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Period: 1121 to 1269
Almohad Caliphate
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Period: 1235 to
The Mali Empire
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Period: 1235 to 1255
The reign of Sundita
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Period: 1312 to 1322
The reign of Mansa Musa
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1324
Mansa Musa makes the Hajj to Mecca
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1420
Mutapa Empire
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Period: 1464 to
The Songhai Empire
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Period: 1464 to 1492
The reign of Sunni Ali
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Period: 1493 to 1528
The reign of Askia the Great