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Period: 750 to 1258
Abbasid Caliphate
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Period: 1226 to
Mali Empire
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Period: 1299 to
Ottoman Empire
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1324
Mansa Musa hajj
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Period: 1325 to 1354
Ibn Battuta
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1440
Swahili city-states flourish
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1453
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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Period: 1501 to
Safavid Empire
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Period: 1509 to 1542
Nzinga Mbemba rules Kongo Empire
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Period: 1520 to 1566
Suleiman the Magnificent