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Kanem-Bornu Empire expansion
Around 1283, the Kanem-Bornu Empire under the Sayfawa dynasty continued expanding into the East African Sahel, integrating tribes and trade-route nod…
Timeline
- 1283Around N'Djamena · ChadThe Sayfawa dynasty used cavalry and vassal forces to conquer several tribes on the southwestern shore of Lake Chad, incorporating them into the empire's tribute and military service systems and expanding direct control.
- 1283Trans-Saharan trade routes · ChadThe empire set up checkpoints and tax stations on major trade routes, governing newly subject regions with Islamic judges and scribes, making the trans-Saharan salt–slave–livestock trade more institutionalized.
Sources
- A History of African Societies to 1870 — Elizabeth Isichei (1997)