Tributary network · approximate700 CE – 1380 · 680 years

Kanem Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Chad. The empire was sustained by the prosperous trans-Saharan trade and was one of the oldest and longest-lived empires in world history and especially in African history.

Wikipedia: Kanem–Bornu Empire·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1300:bornu-kanem
SNAPSHOT1300
MATCHEDbornu-kanem
POLITY TYPEtributary

Upgraded from aourednik/historical-basemaps (was: hand-crafted-from-atlases)

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

Mongol Conquests1206–1368
World-changing · 40M dead
Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
World-changing · 20M dead
Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
World-changing · 15M dead
An Lushan Rebellion755–763 CE
World-changing · 13M dead
Jiedushi (Military Commissioner) Rebellions755–880 CE
World-changing · 5.0M dead
Timurid Invasions1368–1405
World-changing · 5.0M dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 700 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kanem Empire (700 CE – 1380). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-kanem-empire · Sources & methodology