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There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
Magadha Kingdom (until 320 BC) Colchis (–164 BC) Kingdom of Phrygia (until 696 BC) Kingdom of Lydia (until 546 BC) Philistia (until 732 BC) Sabaean Kingdom (c. 1100 BC–275 AD) Zhou Kingdom (c. 1046–256 BC) United Kingdom of Israel and Judah (1030 BC–931 BC) Kingdom of Ammon (c. 1000 BC–332 BC) Kingdom of Israel (930 BC–720 BC)
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68708-9. Davidson, Basil (1971). Great Ages of Man: African Kingdoms. New York: Time Life Books. LCCN 66-25647. Davidson, Basil (1991). Africa In History, Themes and Outlines (Revised and expanded ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster.
A map of Africa showing the continent's political systems: three monarchies (in red) and republics (in blue).. Monarchy was the prevalent form of government in the history of Africa, where self-governing states, territories, or nations existed in which supreme power resided with an individual who was recognized as the head of state. [1]
This is a list of kingdoms and royal dynasties, organized by geographic region. Note: many countries have had multiple dynasties over the course of recorded history. This is not a comprehensively exhaustive list and may require further additions or historical verification.
States of Medieval Africa — precolonial states and monarchies established during the Middle Ages, between 750 CE and 1502. See also the preceding Category:Countries in ancient Africa and the succeeding Category:Countries in precolonial Africa
The terms African civilizations, also classical African civilizations, or African empires are terms that generally refer to the various pre-colonial African kingdoms.The civilizations usually include Egypt, Carthage, Axum, [1] Numidia, and Nubia, [1] but may also be extended to the prehistoric Land of Punt and others: Kingdom of Dagbon, the Empire of Ashanti, Kingdom of Kongo, Empire of Mali ...
Gauda thus succeeded to a reduced Numidian kingdom. He divided the kingdom geographically between his two sons, establishing two different lines of Numidian kings. They were briefly displaced by a certain Hiarbas, but Roman intervention restored them. Massinissa I (202–148) Micipsa (148–118), son of Massinissa; Gulussa (148–145), son of ...