Africa in the medieval world (500 – 1500). A thousand years of kingdoms, caliphates, steppe empires and trading cities between the fall of Rome and the voyages that joined the hemispheres.
Aksum, in northern Ethiopia, struck gold, silver and bronze coins from the third century AD and raised granite grave markers more than 23 meters tall.
· AD 350Ancestors of the Shona built Great Zimbabwe between about 1100 and 1450. Excavations proved it in 1905 and 1929; Rhodesia censored that finding until 1980.
· 1300About a ton by one museum estimate; the 100 camels and 500 gold staffs are report, not record. Al-Umari, 12 years on, wrote that the dinar lost value.
· 1324
