Almoravid conquest of Ghana (traditional account)
1076* · Event
Later Arabic sources say the Berber Almoravids took the Ghanaian capital around 1076; many modern historians doubt a military conquest and see Almoravid pressure as one factor in the empire's decline.
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Around 1076
- First Crusade (1096)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)