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1122 B-C. — 249
B.C. Earliest Chinese historical text states
the existence of a black kingdom in theSouthwest
of China at the time of the Tcheu Dynasty. "The
Neqro races oeopled at some time all the
south of India, Indo-china and China. Indo-China
now has pure Negritos as the Semangs. Skulls
of these Neqroes have been found in the
island of Formosa."
1050 B.C. Early legendary
history declared that a queen, Maqueda,
or Nikaula of Sheba, a state of Central
Abyssinia, visited Solomon in 1050 B.C.
and had her son, Menelik, educated in Jerusalem.This
was the supposed beginning of the Auxmite
kingdom.
900 B.C. - c. 200 A.D. Nok culture existed
in the Central Nigerian plateau.
688 B— 700 B.C. Pharoah Necho of
Egypt sent out the Phoenician expedition
that circumnavigated Africa.
688 B.C. — 663 B.C. The
rule of Taharka, "the greatest of
the Ethiopian Kings" was an era of
prosperity and
cultural advancement. Arthur E P B Weigail
calls his reign "that astonishing
epoch of nigger domination",
and Randail-MacIver says "it seems
amazing that an African Negro should have
been able with any sort of
justification to style himself Emperor
of the World." (Du Bois 1939, 1947)
620 B.C. — 560 B.C. Aesop and Sappho,
stated to be black by Greek Orthodox scholar.
Maximum Planudes,
were two of the most illustrious writers
of Greece.
430 B.C. The oldest iron-age dates come
from central Nigeria (Davidson 1968)
A.D. 1 There is increasing evidence that
African slaves were being-transported
to India before and at the beginning
of the Christian era.
There were African sultans in Bengal before
the Portuguese arrived, at which time Africans
were already living near Madras. Janjira,
a state south of Bombay, is of African
origin.
c. 189—199 Pope
Victor I, an African, unified the church
by fixing the present date for Easter and
making Latin the official language. Victor
was the first of three African popes in
the early Catholic Church.
210 Black people have been living in Britain
since at least Roman times.
622 Prophet Muhammed journeyed with three
companions from Mecca to Medina. From this
journey the world religion of Islam was
introduced by its soldiers, teachers, and
merchants all the way across North Africa
and southwestern Europe and in the east
as far as Malaysia and China (Davidson
1969)
A.D. 639 The Arabs invaded African Egypt,
taking it from the Eastern Roman Emperors
and securing as allies the native Negroid
Egyptians, now called Copts, and using
Sudanese blacks. Persians, and Turks in
their armies.
They came in 639 under Amir-ibn-el-Asr.
partly as friends of Egyptians against
the tyranny of the Eastern Roman Empire,
partly even as defenders of the heretical
Coptic Church.
700 Origins of the Swahili culture and
language, a Bantu language influenced by
Arabic and other African languages.
711-712 Moorish conquests of Visigothic
kingdom in Spain under the leadership of
Tarik at the battle of Guadalete.
713 Portugal conquered by Moors.
1000 Ghana at height of power as a trading
empire.
Establishment of the Shona people in what
is now Northern Transvaal. They built
a series of Iron-age
settlements and produced pottery, also
working finely in cast and beat gold (Davidson
1969)
c. 1 000 - c.1000 Ancestors
of theYoruba crossed the Niger river from
the northeast and established the village
of Ile- Ife
1058 The destruction of the Empire of Ghana
by the Berber Abubekr after fifteen years
of desperate resistance.
1100 The first stone buildings at Great
Zimbabwe.
Memeluke slaves ruled in Egypt for six
centuries. From ;he ninth until the fourteenth
centuries they were sold
by European kings and merchants to the
kings and merchants of North Africa and
Western Asia inthe European
Middle Ages.
1331 Christian Ethiopians survive many
wars against Muslims and other Africans
and they began to build foundations of
the later Ethiopian Empire.
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