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2 SHARED EVENTSMali

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CIV LEFT · MLI RIGHT

1. 11th–14th centuries

   The savannas join the trans-Saharan trade

   As the Ghana and Mali empires expanded southward, the northern peoples of the region — Senufo and Mandé — were drawn into trans-Saharan commerce, exchanging forest kola nuts for salt, cloth, and gold.

   Economy & Trade · from the Ivory Coast chronicle · The northern savannas, the Dyula, and the Empire of Kong · REFS 3 — History of Côte d'Ivoire, History of Ivory Coast, Background Notes: Cote d'Ivoire

2. c. 1710

   Seku Watara founds the Empire of Kong

   Seku Watara united the Dyula of Kong into a state, often called the Wattara Empire, that grew rich controlling the gold and kola trade and reached into present-day Burkina Faso, Mali, and Ghana.

   Formation · from the Ivory Coast chronicle · The northern savannas, the Dyula, and the Empire of Kong · REFS 2 — Kong Empire, History of Ivory Coast