Examples of The Kanem Empire in the following topics:
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Bornu Empire
- The Kanem-Bornu Empire was an empire that existed in modern Chad and Nigeria from the 14th to 19th centuries.
- The Kanem Empire (c. 700–1376) at its height encompassed an area covering Chad, parts of southern Libya (Fezzan) and eastern Niger, northeastern Nigeria, and northern Cameroon.
- The introduction of the Sefuwa dynasty meant radical changes for the Kanem Empire.
- But Muhammad al-Kanem contested the Fulani advance.
- Although the dynasty ended, the kingdom of Kanem-Bornu survived.
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Sao
- The Sao lived in modern-day Cameroon and Chad from the 6th century BCE to the 16th century CE.
- The Sao civilization flourished in Middle Africa from the 6th century BCE to as late as the 16th century CE.
- If true, the newcomers may have been Arab Bedouin or Sayfuwa raiders coming from the east, who moved into the region in the 14th century CE.
- The Sao fell to the Kanem Empire, the first and longest-lasting of the empires that developed in Chad's Sahelian strip by the end of the 1st millennium CE.
- The power of Kanem and its successors was based on control of the trans-Saharan trade routes that passed through the region.
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Ancient Africa
- Following the conquest of North Africa's Mediterranean coastline by the Roman Empire, the area was integrated economically and culturally into the Roman system.
- The most powerful of these states were Ghana, Gao, and the Kanem-Bornu Empire.
- Ghana declined in the eleventh century, and was succeeded by the Mali Empire which consolidated much of western Sudan in the thirteenth century.
- Kanem accepted Islam in the eleventh century.
- Following the breakup of Mali, the Songhai Empire was founded in the region of middle Niger and the western Sudan.
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The German Empire
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The Brazilian Empire
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Naming of the Byzantine Empire
- While the Western Roman Empire fell, the Eastern Roman Empire, now known as the Byzantine Empire, thrived.
- The Byzantine Empire, sometimes referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, originally founded as Byzantium).
- Over time, the culture of the Eastern Roman Empire transformed.
- Just as the Byzantine Empire represented the political continuation of the Roman Empire, Byzantine art and culture developed directly out of the art of the Roman Empire, which was itself profoundly influenced by ancient Greek art.
- No such distinction existed in the Islamic and Slavic worlds, where the Empire was more straightforwardly seen as the continuation of the Roman Empire.
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Break from the Seleucid Empire and Rise of the Parthian Empire
- The Parthian Empire began as a minor revolt against the Seleucid Empire, but became powerful and wealthy because they controlled major trade routes.
- The Seleucid Empire soon overextended itself.
- The Parthian Empire was also called the Arsacid Empire, after the Arscaid dynasty.
- The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Empire of China, became a center of trade and commerce.
- The Parthians controlled the major trade routes between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China, which became the foundation of Parthia's wealth and power.
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The Holy Roman Empire and the Church
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The Achaemenid Empire
- Under Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great, the Achaemenid Empire became the first global empire.
- The Achaemenid Empire, c. 550-330 BCE, or First Persian Empire, was founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, in Western and Central Asia.
- By the 7th century BCE, a group of ancient Iranian people had established the Median Empire, a vassal state under the Assyrian Empire that later tried to gain its independence in the 8th century BCE.
- Around 550 BCE, Cyrus II of Persia, who became known as Cyrus the Great, rose in rebellion against the Median Empire, eventually conquering the Medes to create the first Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire.
- Cyrus II of Persia, better known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.
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The Second Empire of France