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Kanem-Bornu State (1090s)

Type Event Region Central Africa Time 1091–1100

At the end of the 11th century, the Kanem-Bornu polity around the Lake Chad basin relied on Sahel-Saharan trade routes and cavalry forces to maintain…

Timeline

  1. 1091–1095Kanem · ChadThe Sayfawa dynasty relied on cavalry and a court bureaucracy to control pastoral and agricultural communities around the lake basin, consolidating military dominance over trans-Saharan trade route nodes.
  2. 1096–1100Lake Chad–Fezzan trade route · Central AfricaSalt, horses, slaves, and luxury goods circulated through the Saharan corridor; the Kanem polity gained wealth through taxation and caravan escort, strengthening its regional hegemony in the later 1090s.

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