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500 CE - 1240 CE: The Ghana Empire dominates West Africa.
1076 CE: The Arab traveller Al-Bakri visits the Ghana Empire in West Africa.
1076 CE: Koumbi Saleh, the capital of the Ghana Empire, is sacked by the Almoravids of North Africa.