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600 BCE
Religion spreading
religion spreads in Islam -
Period: 600 BCE to
Western Trading Empires
Three great trading empires came up in west Africa in 600 bce and 1600s -
Period: 600 to 1200
The Kingdom of Ghana
Ghana was the first to make iron weapons -
750
Trans Saharan Trade
North Africa and West Africa began trading salt and gold and both became very rich from it -
Period: 1050 to 1240
Power Struggles
Ghana started losing power and Mali attacked the last strongholds and captured Ghana -
Period: 1312 to 1337
Mansa Musa
Mansa Muse was the greatest emperor that had ever ruled Mali -
1352
Ibn Battuta the great traveler
He spent month crossing the Sahara to get to Mali -
1400
Songhai
Songhai became the largest empire ever in Africa