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Tanganyika Timeline Game

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About This Challenge

Explore the rich history of Tanganyika through this engaging timeline game. Test your knowledge and see if you can accurately place events in their correct chronological order.

  • Key detail 1: Learn about significant events that shaped Tanganyika’s past.
  • Key detail 2: Challenge yourself to think critically and make connections between different historical moments.
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  • 1000 BCE: Tanganyika is inhabited by various indigenous tribes
  • 8th century CE: Arab traders begin to establish trade routes along the East African coast
  • 15th century: Portuguese explorers arrive in East Africa and establish trading posts
  • 17th century: Omani Arabs establish control over the Swahili Coast
  • 1885: German East Africa is established, including the territory of Tanganyika
  • 1905: Construction of the Central Line railway begins in Tanganyika
  • 1920: Tanganyika becomes a League of Nations mandate under British administration
  • 1946: Tanganyika becomes a United Nations Trust Territory under British administration
  • 1961: Tanganyika gains independence from British rule and becomes a republic
  • 1962: Julius Nyerere becomes the first President of Tanganyika
  • 1964: Tanganyika merges with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanzania
  • 1967: Arusha Declaration is adopted, outlining socialist policies for Tanzania
  • 1970: Tanganyika National Parks are established, including Serengeti and Kilimanjaro
  • 1985: Julius Nyerere resigns as President of Tanzania
  • 1995: Multi-party elections are held in Tanzania
  • 1996: Tanzanian government relocates capital from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma
  • 1964: Tanganyika is officially renamed Tanzania
  • 1978: Discovery of human footprints at Laetoli in northern Tanzania
  • 2010: Tanzania hosts the World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam
  • 2011: Tanzania celebrates 50 years of independence

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