c. 1300 to 1500 · Indigenousspan

After 1300 one style of pottery spreads and roads are built to match

Keegan and Hofman ask whether Chicoid ware travelled as a religion rather than as a fashion.

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c. 1300 to 1500 · Indigenousspan

Forty house mounds sit behind a wall on a Cuban mesa at 250 metres

Cliffs on most sides and an embankment across the rest, enclosing three and a half hectares.

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c. 1300 to 1540 · Indigenousspan

Gold, brass and tin lie in the same graves at El Chorro de Maita

The village outlived the conquest as an encomienda and went on burying its dead its own way.

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1300s to 1400s · Africanspan

Copper on the lower Congo pays for the founding of a kingdom

Smiths north of the river worked out copper on their own, and control of it built Kongo.

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1312 · Africanyear only

A Malian expedition crosses the Atlantic westward

Abubakri sailed from the African coast toward what is now Brazil, long before Spain sailed anywhere.

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1372 · Africanyear only

A Nubian bishop is buried under his own consecration scrolls

Timotheos was made bishop in Cairo, enthroned in Egypt, and never sat in his cathedral.

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1385 · Caribbeanyear only

Portuguese law writes feitico into the statute book

The word meant a made thing, and it followed Portuguese ships to Angola and Brazil.

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