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Sonni Ali was succeeded by Askia Muhammad Touré 14931528, who established a new dynasty, the Askia. Muhammad Touré continued Sonni Alis imperial expansion by seizing the important Saharan oases and conquering Mali itself. From there he conquered Haus ...
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SONGHAY.HTM
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- African Empires
The death of Sunni Ali Ber created a power vacuum in the Songhai Empire, and his son was soon deposed by Mamadou Toure who ascended the throne in 1492 under the name Askia meaning general Muhammad, another subject of great oral epics. During his rei ...
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm
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- Axum
Ethiopian Christianity was slightly different from its Greek origins. Under the influence of Egyptian Christians, the Axumites believed that Christ had a single rather than a double nature man and god: this is called Monophysite mono=single, physis=n ...
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/AXUM.HTM
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- The Mwenemutapa Great Zimbabwe
The Mwenemutapa or Zimbabweans were a Bantuspeaking people in southeastern Africa. As with all the Bantu who migrated from central Africa to the south and to the east, the ancestors of the Mwenemutapa brought ironsmelting and agriculture with them to ...
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/MWEN.HTM
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- The Swahili Kingdoms
These citystates began to decline in the sixteenth century; the advent of Portugese trade disrupted the old trade routes and made the Swahili commercial centers obsolete. The Portugese wanted native Africans to have no share in African trade and busi ...
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM
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Early Empires Ghana
