Age of DiscoveryIdeas & Belief King of Kongo baptized 1491Notable The Kongo ruler Nzinga a Nkuwu is baptized by Portuguese priests as Joao I. His son Afonso I made Catholicism the religion of the kingdom. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → First fired clay figures → First pottery → Copper smelting → Bronze Age begins → Shang dynasty → Zhou dynasty and the Mandate of Heaven → Spring and Autumn period → Warring States period → Zhengguo Canal → Qin unifies China → Han dynasty → Magnetic compass for navigation → Portuguese exploration begins → Elmina Castle → King of Kongo baptized Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentmetmuseum.orgKongo Christian art: cross-cultural interaction in the Atlantic world (Metropolitan Museum of Art) ↗Editor's pickBookJohn K. ThorntonA History of West Central Africa to 1850 ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeKingdom of Kongo Christianity history ↗Editor's pick