African Kingdoms Timeline By Larry27 500 BCE Iron smelting in Nigeria 200 BCE Societies start to create in West Africa Period: 300 to 1200 Ghana was the first Kingdom that started 800 Islam Starts to spread through Africa 1000 Iron technology spreads to the rest of Africa 1200 Ring from royalty 1200 Manilla Period: 1200 to 1500 Kingdom of Mali starts 1244 Used coin 1300 Ingots 1400 Equestrian figure Period: 1464 to 1591 Songhai, the last of these three great empires starts
