A History of World Societies:
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| 1400– |
Salt trade dominates West African economy |
| ca. 1464– |
Songhai kingdom dominates the western Sudan |
| 1485 | Portuguese and other Europeans first appear in Benin |
| 1493– |
Muhammad Toure governs and expands kingdom of Songhai |
| 1498 | Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sails around Africa |
| ca. 1500– |
Era of transatlantic slave trade |
| 1502– |
Portuguese erect forts at Kilwa, Zanzibar, and Sofala on Swahili coast |
| 1529 | Adal defeats Ethiopian emperor and begins systematic devastation of Ethiopia |
| 1543 | Joint Ethiopian and Portuguese force defeat Muslims in Ethiopia |
| 1571– |
Idris Alooma governs kingdom of Kanem- |
| 1591 | Moroccan army defeats Songhai |
| 1658 | Dutch East India Company allows importation of slaves into Cape Colony |
| 1680s | Famine from Senegambian coast to Upper Nile |
| 1738– |
Major famine in West Africa |
| 1789 | Olaudah Equiano publishes autobiography |