Romans invade Kush, sack the capital at Napata. Over two million slaves from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa are in Roman Italy at the end of the Republic. Slavery is a major feature of the Roman Empire for several hundred years. Terence Afer (the African) is considered one of the the Roman Empire's finest Latin translators and poets. Rome conquers Carthage and establishes its first significant presence on the African continent. Settlement is established at Jenne on the Niger River in West Africa. It is located in what is now Burkina Faso, The State of Ghana begins to evolve in the West African Sudan. During his reign, Roman Italy is invaded.Īlexandria on the Mediterranean Sea is the scientific capital of the Hellenistic world, famous for its museum, university, and library. The Kingdom, which will be called Kush, will last there for more than nine centuries. Rulers of Nubia establish a new kingdom at Meroe. Ptolemy becomes the first ruler of a dynasty that will control Egypt until 283 BCE. Axum eventually becomes the nation of Ethiopia.Īncient Nok culture emerges in what is now Nigeria.Įgypt is conquered by Alexander the Great. Nubian Pharaohs rule the entire Nile Valley during the 25th Dynasty.īantu-speakers arrive in what is now South Africa with iron and domesticated cattle.īeginning of the trans-Saharan salt and gold trade in West Africa.Īxum emerges in Northeastern Africa. Nubia briefly regains its independence from Egypt.īantu migration out of present-day eastern Nigeria spreads across Sub-Saharan Africa. Nubian state with its capital at Kerma emerges as a rival to Egypt.Įgyptian New Kingdom unites the Nile Valley including Nubia. Other civilizations emerge in Mesopotamia, northern China, Northeastern India. Period of the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt and Northeastern Africa. This is the first evidence of written texts anywhere in the world.Įgypt emerges as a centralized state and flourishing civilization. Agricultural surpluses and growing wealth allow specialization including glass making, pottery, metallurgy, weaving, woodworking, leather making, and masonry.Įgyptians begin using burial texts to accompany their dead into the afterlife. The rise in the food supply generates a rapidly increasing population. River societies emerge along the Nile, Niger, and Congo Rivers.Įgyptian agriculturalists develop irrigation and animal husbandry to transform the lower Nile Valley. Period of migration across the African continent and out of Africa to Asia and Europe. Hominid species Australopithicus afarensis lived in the Hadar region of Ethiopia, including "Lucy," the famous skeletal remains found in 1974. UTC offsets in diagonally striped areas are not whole hours.Skeletal remains uncovered suggest the Rift Valley in East Africa is home to the earliest human ancestors. Find the current time offset – displayed in whole hours only – from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the bottom of the map. ![]() Hover your mouse over the map to highlight time zones.Click on any red dot and go to that city's page with time, weather, sunrise/set, moon phases and lots more. ![]() “DST” is displayed if there is Daylight Saving Time at the moment. Hover your mouse over any of the red dots to see the name of the city and country and current local time.To remove the pins permanently (undo not possible), simply click here or on the Time Zone Map link in the menu above.If you place more than one pin, an extra line of information is added underneath the map with links to those cities' pages. Search for any city in the search field above and place a black "pin" by that city on the map.Please note that the Time Zone Map is not a political map but a time zone map showing the time zone boundaries. Future changes are usually incorporated into our database before they take effect, so the map accurately reflects the current situation. ![]()
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