May 20, 2015 · 300 BC. Djenne-Djenno, a town in current day Mali, is established. The town is one of the oldest urbanised centres known. It is associated with thriving markets and agriculture, most notably the domestication of African rice. The town is also known as being one of the earliest sites of iron production in sub-Saharan Africa. 264 – 146 BC

Map of the “ World_in_300_BCE ”. Available on Wikipedia. I – African information: * African Tribal locations are derived from: The DK Atlas of World History. Map of “The Development of Complex Societies in Africa”. (Pg 160). (Bantus, Berber Tribes, Chadians, Cushites, Daamat, Garamantes, Gur, Khoisan Peoples, Kwa, Libyans, Mandes,

The prehistory of North Africa spans the period of earliest human presence in the region to gradual onset of historicity in the Maghreb during classical antiquity. Early anatomically modern humans are known to have been present at Jebel Irhoud, in what is now Morocco, approximately 300,000 years ago. [1]

Jun 19, 2012 · 300 BC: the city of Axum is founded. 50: Axum rules Eritrea. 300: Axum conquers southern Arabia. 320: the Syrian monk Frumentius converts Ethiopian emperor Ezana to Christianity. 500: Axum conquers southern Sudan. 525: King Ella Kaleb of Axum annexes Yemen. 500: Polynesian people settle Madagascar.

From about 300 BC the north African coast has, in Alexandria, one of the most brilliant cities of the Mediterranean world. But the entire region soon falls under the control of Rome, which destroys Carthage in 146 BC and annexes Egypt in 30 BC.

Year 300 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus and Pansa (or, less frequently, year 454 Ab urbe condita).

The terms African civilizations, also classical African civilizations, or African empires are terms that generally refer to the various pre-colonial African kingdoms. ... Egyptian hieroglyphs were also used, though the Meroitic script was also used …

Feb 9, 2025 · At about 3300 BC, the historical record opens in Northern Africa with the rise of literacy in the Pharaonic civilization of Ancient Egypt. [12] One of the world's earliest and longest-lasting civilizations, the Egyptian state continued, with varying levels of …

Apr 9, 2019 · The Borana calendar is a calendrical system once thought to have been used by the Borana Oromo, a people living in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya. The calendar has been claimed to be based on an earlier Cushitic calendar, developed around 300 BC …

6 days ago · Hannibal suffers his first decisive defeat by a Roman army, at an unidentified site in north Africa called Zama Go to Zama, battle of in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: