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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 · CMR LEFT · TCD RIGHT

1. c. 6th century BCE

   Rise of the Sao culture

   South of Lake Chad the Sao began building walled towns and producing distinctive terracotta and bronze artwork, forming one of the earliest known complex societies in the region.

   Formation · from the Cameroon chronicle · The Sao, the Bantu cradle and Cameroon's early peoples · REFS 2 — Sao civilisation, Cameroon (country overview and history)

2. c. 11th–15th centuries

   Height of the Sao city-states

   The Sao settlements of the Lake Chad basin reached their apex between roughly the ninth and fifteenth centuries before being absorbed by neighbouring states and peoples such as the Kotoko.

   Culture & Ideas · from the Cameroon chronicle · The Sao, the Bantu cradle and Cameroon's early peoples · REFS 2 — Sao civilisation, History of Cameroon