Sahelian cereal farmers

Sahelian cereal farmers appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Sahara and Sahel (North and West Africa) from c. 1500 BCE to the present, a span of 3,524 years. Its people spoke Niger-Congo languages (Mande, Yoruba, Akan, Fula, Wolof, Igbo (non-Bantu)).

Mande, Fula, Gur and Songhai-speaking villagers of the Niger bend and savanna, growing millet, sorghum and African rice and herding cattle. Their towns fed the trading empires of the Sahel.

See Sahelian cereal farmers on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1500 BCE to the present

Duration

3,524 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Sahara and Sahel, North and West Africa

Language family

Niger-Congo

Events in North and West Africa during its time

• 1470 BCE Hatshepsut's expedition to Punt
• 1346 BCE Akhenaten founds Amarna
• 814 BCE Founding of Carthage
• 728 BCE Piye conquers Egypt
• 500 BCE Iron smelting in West Africa
• 331 BCE Founding of Alexandria
• 146 BCE Destruction of Carthage
• 30 BCE Death of Cleopatra

Neighbours in North and West Africa

• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE
• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE
• Carthage c. 814 to 146 BCE
• New Kingdom of Egypt c. 1550 to 1069 BCE
• Mali Empire c. 1235 to 1670 CE
• Ptolemaic Kingdom 305 to 30 BCE
• Mamluk Sultanate 1250 to 1517 CE
• Fatimid Caliphate 909 to 1171 CE
• Songhai Empire 1464 to 1591 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Minoan civilization c. 3100 to 1450 BCE, Europe
• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE, Europe
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America
• Teotihuacan c. 100 BCE to 550 CE, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Khmer Empire 802 to 1431 CE, Southeast Asia

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