Africa (14th – mid-15th c.)

Africa from 1301 to the mid-15th century: the Mali Empire at its height and Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage through Cairo; the Solomonic kings of Ethiopia and their wars with the Muslim sultanates of the Horn; the Swahili city of Kilwa and the gold trade of the Zimbabwe plateau; and the Maghreb of the Marinids, Zayyanids and Hafsids, from which Ibn Battuta set out and to which he returned, and where Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah.

5 events · 1 region · Africa

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Events

• Kilwa at its height under Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaimanc. 1310 – c. 1333 · Africa
• Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca1324 – between 1325 and 1326 · Africa
• Reign of Amda Seyon I: the expansion of Christian Ethiopia1314–1344 · Africa
• The travels of Ibn Battuta14 June 1325 – between January and February 1354 · Africa
• Ibn Khaldun writes the Muqaddimah1377 · Africa

Key participants

Sources

1. Wikipedia (English): Mali Empire
2. Wikipedia (English): Solomonic dynasty
3. Wikipedia (English): Kilwa Sultanate
4. Wikipedia (English): Marinid dynasty
5. Wikipedia (Russian): Империя Мали
6. Levtzion N. Ancient Ghana and Mali. — London: Methuen, 1973.

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