A map showing the various peoples of Africa in the seventeenth century.
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Rise of Rwanda
Emergence of Luba Governance
Songhai Empire Dissolves
Emergence of the Merina Kingdom
Expansion of the Oyo Kingdom
Rise of the Arma in Timbuktu
European Powers Vie for Control of Gorée
The Middle Passage to American Slavery
Formation of the Kuba Kingdom
Dutch and Portuguese Struggle for the Guinea Coast
Foundation of the Darfur Sultanate
Conquest of Luanda
Ndongo Wars
Emergence of the Guinea Coast States
Wars for the Red Sea Trade
Dutch Begin to Colonize Southern Africa
Expansion of the Alawis
A Jihad Is Called in Senegambia
Second Anglo-Dutch War
Decline of Benin
Rise of Buganda
Decline of the Solomonid Dynasty
