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Africa
Central and West Africa
Eastern Africa
The Nile Valley
North Africa
Southern Africa
Africa
2,500,000-30,000 BC
AD 600-1500
30,000-1000 BC
AD 1500-1850
1000-332 BC
AD 1850-1950
332 BC-AD 400
AD 1950-2000
AD 400-600
Central and West Africa
1000 BC-AD 300
AD 1500-1850
AD 300-1200
AD 1850-1950
AD 1200-1500
AD 1950-2000
Eastern Africa
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AD 1-800
AD 1850-1950
AD 800-1500
AD 1950-2000
AD 1500-1850
The Nile Valley
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6000-4000 BC Neolithic
332-30 BC Hellenistic
4000-3100 BC Predynastic
30 BC-AD 395 Roman
3100-2686 BC Early dynastic
AD 395-642 Coptic
2686-2181 BC Old Kingdom
AD 642-1250 Early Islamic
2181-1550 BC
AD 1250-1500 Mamluk
1550-1086 BC New Kingdom
AD 1500-1800 Ottoman
1086-332 BC Late Period
AD 1800-2000 Modern
North Africa
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2000-800 BC Berber
AD 647-1500 Early and Middle Islamic
800-150 BC Phoenicians and Greeks
AD 1500-1800 Later Islamic
150 BC - AD 400 Roman
AD 1800-2000 Modern
AD 400-647 Vandals and Byzantium
Southern Africa
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2000 BC-AD 1200
AD 1650-1950
AD 1200-1500
AD 1950-2000
AD 1500-1650
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