Swahili Coast Timeline

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c. 750 CE

Muslim traders from Arabia begin to settle on the Swahili Coast.
c. 1100 CE - c. 1500 CE

The trading city-states of Africa's Swahili Coast flourish.
1498 CE - 1499 CE

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope and up the eastern coast of Africa.
1505 CE

The Portuguese begin to attack cities and build forts along the Swahili Coast in order to control trade.

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