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How the Borders within Africa changed during the Middle Ages

Delve into history by exploring the significant shifts in the world’s borders throughout time. These videos offer a reconstruction that vividly illustrates the rise and fall of African kingdoms, states, and empires during the Middle Ages.

Ollie Bye begins with this video looking at the entire continent from ancient times to the present day with every year being tracked from 600 CE:

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Meanwhile, Prussian Mapping has a more detailed look at just North Africa starting in the year 643:

Jake Mapping has created three maps – the first looking at West Africa from the year 690:

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The second map looks at the Horn of Africa area from ancient times, with year-by-year coverage starting in 896:

The third map just focuses on Morocco, beginning in the year 744:

Finally, we return to Ollie Bye, who created this video to track the Mali Empire between the years 1235 and 1610:

We have also created our own map of Medieval Africa – you can buy it on our Patreon Shop

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