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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Modernity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Modernity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Politics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Politics</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Politics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Politics subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-King" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#King"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>King</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-King-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Royal_court" 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<span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Brazil</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Brazil-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-France" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#France"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>France</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-France-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Portugal" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Portugal"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Portugal</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Portugal-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-United_Kingdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#United_Kingdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>United Kingdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-United_Kingdom-sublist" 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class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinu_de_Dahomey" title="Reinu de Dahomey – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Reinu de Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomeya" title="Dahomeya – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Dahomeya" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="داهومیا – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="داهومیا" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B9" title="Дахомей – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Дахомей" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraljevina_Dahomej" title="Kraljevina Dahomej – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Kraljevina Dahomej" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomejsk%C3%A9_kr%C3%A1lovstv%C3%AD" title="Dahomejské království – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Dahomejské království" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigreich_Dahomey" title="Königreich Dahomey – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Königreich Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomee" title="Dahomee – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Dahomee" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AD%CE%B7" title="Νταχομέη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Νταχομέη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reino_de_Dahomey" title="Reino de Dahomey – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Reino de Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%C4%9Dlando_Dahomeo" title="Reĝlando Dahomeo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Reĝlando Dahomeo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C" title="داهومی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="داهومی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royaume_du_Dahomey" title="Royaume du Dahomey – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Royaume du Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-guw mw-list-item"><a href="https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Gun" lang="guw" hreflang="guw" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Gungbe" data-language-local-name="Gun" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gungbe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%ED%98%B8%EB%A9%94%EC%9D%B4_%EC%99%95%EA%B5%AD" title="다호메이 왕국 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="다호메이 왕국" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%A1" title="Դահոմեա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դահոմեա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80" title="डाहोमी – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="डाहोमी" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahome" title="Dahome – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Dahome" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerajaan_Dahomey" title="Kerajaan Dahomey – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kerajaan Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dah%C3%B3mey" title="Dahómey – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Dahómey" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regno_di_Dahomey" title="Regno di Dahomey – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Regno di Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%AA_%D7%93%D7%94%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99" title="ממלכת דהומיי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ממלכת דהומיי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyaniya_Dahomey%C3%AA" title="Keyaniya Dahomeyê – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Keyaniya Dahomeyê" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomejas_karaliste" title="Dahomejas karaliste – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Dahomejas karaliste" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahom%C4%97jos_karalyst%C4%97" title="Dahomėjos karalystė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Dahomėjos karalystė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%98" title="Дахомеј – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Дахомеј" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koninkrijk_Dahomey" title="Koninkrijk Dahomey – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Koninkrijk Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%9B%E3%83%A1%E7%8E%8B%E5%9B%BD" title="ダホメ王国 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ダホメ王国" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey_K%C3%B6nangrik" title="Dahomey Könangrik – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Dahomey Könangrik" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konged%C3%B8mmet_Dahomey" title="Kongedømmet Dahomey – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kongedømmet Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reialme_de_Dahomey" title="Reialme de Dahomey – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Reialme de Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagomeya" title="Dagomeya – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Dagomeya" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomej" title="Dahomej – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Dahomej" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraljevstvo_Dahomej" title="Kraljevstvo Dahomej – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Kraljevstvo Dahomej" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomeyn_kuningaskunta" title="Dahomeyn kuningaskunta – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Dahomeyn kuningaskunta" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey" title="Dahomey – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Dahomey" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li 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.ib-country-fn-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .ib-country-fn-num{margin-left:1em}</style><table class="infobox ib-country vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above adr"><div class="fn org country-name">Kingdom of Dahomey</div><div class="ib-country-names">Danhɔmɛ (<a href="/wiki/Fon_language" title="Fon language">Fon</a>)</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1600</span>–1904</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="noresize" style="display:table; width:100%;"> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding-left:5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Dahomey"><img alt="Flag of Dahomey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg/125px-Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg/188px-Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg/250px-Royal_banner_of_B%C3%A9hanzin_of_Dahomey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="666" /></a></span></div><div style="padding: 2px 0px 3px;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg/125px-Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="125" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg/188px-Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg/250px-Flag_of_Ghezo_of_Dahomey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></div> <div>Top: Flag of <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" title="Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1890</span>–<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1894</span>)<br />Bottom: Flag of <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Ghezo</a> (1818–1858)</div> </div> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding: 0px 5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms (c. 1890–c. 1894) of Dahomey"><img alt="Coat of arms (c. 1890–c. 1894) of Dahomey" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg/85px-Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg.png" decoding="async" width="85" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg/128px-Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg/170px-Coat_of_arms_of_B%C3%A9hanzin.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="219" data-file-height="300" /></a></span></div> <div>Coat of arms (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1890</span>–<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1894</span>)</div> </div> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Kingdom of Dahomey around 1894, superimposed on a map of the modern-day Republic of Benin, in the region of West Africa."><img alt="The Kingdom of Dahomey around 1894, superimposed on a map of the modern-day Republic of Benin, in the region of West Africa." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg/250px-Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="472" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg/375px-Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg/500px-Royaume_du_Danhom%C3%A8_1894.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="851" data-file-height="1605" /></a></span><div class="ib-country-map-caption">The Kingdom of Dahomey around 1894, superimposed on a map of the modern-day Republic of Benin, in the region of West Africa.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Kingdom, vassal state of the <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a> (1730–1823), <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">French Protectorate</a> (1894–1904)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Abomey" title="Abomey">Abomey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Common languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fon_language" title="Fon language">Fon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Religion <div class="ib-country-religion"></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">Vodun</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Dahomean</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Dahomey" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics of Dahomey">Government</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Monarchy</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/King_of_Dahomey" title="King of Dahomey">Ahosu (King)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1600–1625 (first) </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Do-Aklin" title="Do-Aklin">Do-Aklin</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• 1894–1900 (last) </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Agoli-agbo" title="Agoli-agbo">Agoli-agbo</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">History</th><td class="infobox-data"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Aja_people" title="Aja people">Aja</a> settlers from Allada settle on Abomey Plateau </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1600</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Dakodonu" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakodonu">Dakodonu</a> begins conquest on Abomey Plateau </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1620</span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Agaja" title="Agaja">King Agaja</a> conquers <a href="/wiki/Allada" title="Allada">Allada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah" title="Kingdom of Whydah">Whydah</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1724–1727</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">King Ghezo</a> defeats the <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a> and ends tributary status </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1823</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Annexed into <a href="/wiki/French_Dahomey" title="French Dahomey">French Dahomey</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1894</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• Disestablished </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1904</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area</th></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">1700<sup id="cite_ref-Heywood_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heywood-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data">10,000 km<sup>2</sup> (3,900 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population</th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• 1700<sup id="cite_ref-Heywood_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heywood-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">350,000</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cowrie" title="Cowrie">Cowrie</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table style="width:95%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; display:inline-table;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border:0; padding-bottom:0"><div id="before-after"></div> <b>Preceded by</b></td> <td style="text-align:center;border:0; padding-bottom:0;"><b>Succeeded by</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center; border:0;"> <table style="width:100%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ardra" title="Kingdom of Ardra">Kingdom of Ardra</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Blank.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3" data-file-height="2" /></span></span> </td> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah" title="Kingdom of Whydah">Kingdom of Whydah</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; text-align:center;border:0;"> <table style="width:92%; text-align:center; margin:0 auto; border:0;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:right;"><a 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style="float: right;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1100–1724</span></div></li><li><a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a><div style="float: right;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1300–1836</span></div></li><li><a href="/wiki/Songhai_Empire" title="Songhai Empire">Songhai Empire</a><div style="float: right;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1464–1591</span></div></li><li><a href="/wiki/Akwamu" title="Akwamu">Kingdom of Akwamu</a><div style="float: right;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1480–1734</span></div> <div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a><div style="float: right;"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1500–1800</span></div> <div class="plainlist" style="line-height:1.4em; 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African</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_kingdoms_in_Africa_throughout_history" class="mw-redirect" title="List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history">kingdom</a> located within present-day <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a> that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the <a href="/wiki/Fon_people" title="Fon people">Fon people</a> in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like <a href="/wiki/Ouidah" title="Ouidah">Whydah</a> belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah" title="Kingdom of Whydah">Kingdom of Whydah</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic</a> coast which granted it unhindered access to the tricontinental <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic Slave Trade</a>. </p><p>For much of the middle 19th century, the Kingdom of Dahomey became a key regional state, after eventually ending tributary status to the <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Heywood_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heywood-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> European visitors extensively documented the kingdom, and it became one of the most familiar African nations known to <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe" title="Ethnic groups in Europe">Europeans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Law-1986_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law-1986-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slave labor</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Polanyi_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Polanyi-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> significant international trade and diplomatic relations with <a href="/wiki/European_colonization_of_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="European colonization of Africa">Europeans</a>, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the <a href="/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons" title="Dahomey Amazons">Dahomey Amazons</a> by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of <a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">Vodun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Death_by_government_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Death_by_government-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a>, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-Law-1986_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law-1986-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey was a highly militaristic society constantly organised for warfare; it engaged in wars and raids against neighboring nations and sold captives into the Atlantic slave trade in exchange for European goods such as <a href="/wiki/Rifles" class="mw-redirect" title="Rifles">rifles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gunpowder" title="Gunpowder">gunpowder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Textile" title="Textile">fabrics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cowrie_shells" class="mw-redirect" title="Cowrie shells">cowrie shells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tobacco" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smoking_pipe" title="Smoking pipe">pipes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage" title="Alcoholic beverage">alcohol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brittani_a2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brittani_a2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other captives became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or were killed in <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">human sacrifices</a> during the festival celebrations known as the <a href="/wiki/Annual_Customs_of_Dahomey" title="Annual Customs of Dahomey">Annual Customs of Dahomey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Annual Customs of Dahomey involved significant collection and distribution of gifts and tribute, religious Vodun ceremonies, military parades, and discussions by dignitaries about the future for the kingdom. </p><p>In the 1840s, Dahomey began to face decline with British pressure to abolish the slave trade, which included the British <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> imposing <a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Africa" title="Blockade of Africa">a naval blockade</a> against the kingdom and enforcing <a href="/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron" title="West Africa Squadron">anti-slavery patrols</a> near its coast.<sup id="cite_ref-Law-1997_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law-1997-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey was also weakened after failing to invade and capture slaves in <a href="/wiki/Abeokuta" title="Abeokuta">Abeokuta</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> city-state which was founded by the Oyo Empire refugees migrating southward.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey later began experiencing territorial disputes with <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> which led to the <a href="/wiki/First_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="First Franco-Dahomean War">war in 1890</a> and part of the kingdom becoming a French protectorate. The kingdom fell four years later, when <a href="/wiki/Second_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="Second Franco-Dahomean War">renewed fighting</a> resulted in the last king, <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" title="Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a>, to be overthrown and the country annexed into <a href="/wiki/French_West_Africa" title="French West Africa">French West Africa</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/French_Dahomey" title="French Dahomey">French Dahomey</a> would gain independence in 1960 as the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Dahomey" title="Republic of Dahomey">Republic of Dahomey</a>, which would rename itself <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a> in 1975. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Kingdom of Dahomey was referred to by many different names and has been written in a variety of ways, including <i>Danxome</i>, <i>Danhome</i>, and <i>Fon</i>. The name <i>Fon</i> relates to the dominant ethnic and language group, the <a href="/wiki/Fon_people" title="Fon people">Fon people</a>, of the royal families of the kingdom and is how the kingdom first became known to Europeans. The names <i>Dahomey</i>, <i>Danxome</i>, and <i>Danhome</i> share an origin story, which historian Edna Bay says may be a <a href="/wiki/False_etymology" title="False etymology">false etymology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bay-1998_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bay-1998-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The story goes that <a href="/wiki/Dakodonu" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakodonu">Dakodonu</a>, considered the second king in modern kings lists, was granted permission by the Gedevi chiefs, the local rulers, to settle in the Abomey Plateau. Dakodonu requested additional land from a prominent chief named Dan (or Da) to which the chief responded sarcastically, "Should I open up my belly and build you a house in it?" For this insult, Dakodonu killed Dan and began the construction of his palace on the spot. The name of the kingdom was derived from the incident: <i>Dan</i> meaning "chief", <i>xo</i> meaning "belly", and <i>me</i> meaning "inside of", in the <a href="/wiki/Fon_language" title="Fon language">Fon language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Monroe_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monroe-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Kingdom_of_Dahomey" title="History of the Kingdom of Dahomey">History of the Kingdom of Dahomey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kings_of_Dahomey" class="mw-redirect" title="Kings of Dahomey">Kings of Dahomey</a></div> <p>The Kingdom of Dahomey was established around 1600 by the Fon people who had recently settled in the area (or were possibly a result of intermarriage between the <a href="/wiki/Aja_people" title="Aja people">Aja people</a> and the local Gedevi). The foundational king for Dahomey is often considered to be <a href="/wiki/Houegbadja" title="Houegbadja">Houegbadja</a> (c. 1645–1685), who built the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Palaces_of_Abomey" title="Royal Palaces of Abomey">Royal Palaces of Abomey</a> and began raiding and taking over towns outside of the Abomey Plateau.<sup id="cite_ref-Bay-1998_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bay-1998-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kings">Kings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Kings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>King </th> <th>Start of rule </th> <th>End of rule </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Do-Aklin" title="Do-Aklin">Do-Aklin (Ganyihessou)</a> </td> <td>≈1600 </td> <td>1620 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Dakodonou" title="Dakodonou">Dakodonou</a> </td> <td>1620 </td> <td>1645 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Houegbadja" title="Houegbadja">Houégbadja</a> </td> <td>1645 </td> <td>1680 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Akaba_of_Dahomey" title="Akaba of Dahomey">Akaba</a> </td> <td>1680 </td> <td>1708 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Agaja" title="Agaja">Agaja</a> </td> <td>1708 </td> <td>1740 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tegbessou" class="mw-redirect" title="Tegbessou">Tegbessou (Tegbesu)</a> </td> <td>1740 </td> <td>1774 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kpengla" title="Kpengla">Kpengla</a> </td> <td>1774 </td> <td>1789 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Agonglo" title="Agonglo">Agonglo</a> </td> <td>1790 </td> <td>1797 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Adandozan" title="Adandozan">Adandozan</a> </td> <td>1797 </td> <td>1818 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Guézo (Ghézo/Gezo)</a> </td> <td>1818 </td> <td>1858 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Gl%C3%A8l%C3%A8" class="mw-redirect" title="Glèlè">Glèlè</a> </td> <td>1858 </td> <td>1889 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" title="Béhanzin">Gbehanzin</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>1894 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Agoli-agbo" title="Agoli-agbo">Agoli-agbo</a> </td> <td>1894 </td> <td>1900 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Source:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg/250px-Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg/375px-Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg/500px-Victims_for_sacrifice-1793.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="655" /></a><figcaption>"Victims for sacrifice" – from <i><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Dalzel" title="Archibald Dalzel">The history of Dahomy, an inland Kingdom of Africa</a></i>, 1793</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rule_of_Agaja_(1708–1740)"><span id="Rule_of_Agaja_.281708.E2.80.931740.29"></span>Rule of Agaja (1708–1740)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rule of Agaja (1708–1740)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Agaja" title="Agaja">King Agaja</a>, Houegbadja's grandson, came to the throne in 1708 and began significant expansion of the Kingdom of Dahomey. This expansion was made possible by the superior military force of King Agaja's Dahomey. In contrast to surrounding regions, Dahomey employed a professional standing army numbering around ten thousand.<sup id="cite_ref-Harms_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harms-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> What the Dahomey lacked in numbers, they made up for in discipline and superior arms. In 1724, Agaja conquered <a href="/wiki/Allada" title="Allada">Allada</a>, the origin for the royal family according to oral tradition, and in 1727 he conquered <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah" title="Kingdom of Whydah">Whydah</a>. This increased size of the kingdom, particularly along the Atlantic coast, and increased power made Dahomey into a regional power. The result was near constant warfare with the main regional state, the <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a>, from 1728 until 1740.<sup id="cite_ref-Alpern_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alpern-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The warfare with the Oyo empire resulted in Dahomey assuming a <a href="/wiki/Tributary_state" title="Tributary state">tributary</a> status to the Oyo empire.<sup id="cite_ref-Law-1986_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law-1986-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rule_of_Tegbesu_(1740–1774)"><span id="Rule_of_Tegbesu_.281740.E2.80.931774.29"></span>Rule of Tegbesu (1740–1774)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rule of Tegbesu (1740–1774)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tegbesu, also spelled as Tegbessou, was King of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, from 1740 until 1774. Tegbesu was not the oldest son of King Agaja (1708–1740), but was selected following his father's death after winning a succession struggle with a brother. King Agaja had significantly expanded the Kingdom of Dahomey during his reign, notably conquering Whydah in 1727. This increased the size of the kingdom and increased both domestic dissent and regional opposition. Tegbessou ruled over Dahomey at a point where it needed to increase its legitimacy over those whom it had recently conquered. As a result, Tegbesu is often credited with a number of administrative changes in the kingdom in order to establish the legitimacy of the kingdom. </p><p>The slave trade increased significantly during Tegbessou's reign and began to provide the largest part of the income for the king. In addition, Tegbesu's rule is the one with the first significant <i><a href="/wiki/Kpojito" title="Kpojito">kpojito</a></i> or mother of the leopard with Hwanjile in that role. The <i>kpojito</i> became a prominently important person in Dahomey royalty. Hwanjile, in particular, is said to have changed dramatically the religious practices of Dahomey by creating two new deities and more closely tying worship to that of the king. According to one oral tradition, as part of the tribute owed by Dahomey to Oyo, Agaja had to give to Oyo one of his sons. The story claims that only Hwanjile, of all of Agaja's wives, was willing to allow her son to go to Oyo. This act of sacrifice, according to the oral tradition made Tegbesu, was favored by Agaja. Agaja reportedly told Tegbesu that he was the future king, but his brother Zinga was still the official heir.<sup id="cite_ref-Bay-1998_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bay-1998-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rule_of_Ghezo_(1818–1859)"><span id="Rule_of_Ghezo_.281818.E2.80.931859.29"></span>Rule of Ghezo (1818–1859)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Rule of Ghezo (1818–1859)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">King Ghezo</a> ascended the throne in 1818, he was confronted by two immediate obstacles: the Kingdom of Dahomey was in political turmoil, and it was financially unstable.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> First, he needed to gain political independence by removing the <a href="/wiki/Tributary_state" title="Tributary state">tributary</a> yoke that the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> empire of <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo</a> had over the Dahomey since 1748. Secondly, he needed to revitalize the Dahomey economy.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both of these objectives relied on the slave trade. King Ghezo implemented new military strategies, which allowed them to take a physical stand against the Oyo, who were also a major competitor in the slave trade. He also put stipulations on Dahomey's participation in the slave trade. Under his reign, no longer would the Dahomey be traded, as they were under the leadership of his brother, <a href="/wiki/Adandozan" title="Adandozan">Adandozan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey would focus on capturing their enemies and trading them instead. King Ghezo sought to eventually lead his people toward the "legitimate" trade of palm oil.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Dahomey were soon met with victory when they brought down the Oyo Empire and its yoke at Paonignan in 1827. While <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Brazil" title="Empire of Brazil">Brazil</a>'s demand for <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil" title="Slavery in Brazil">slaves</a> increased in 1830, the British started a campaign to <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">abolish</a> the slave trade in Africa. The British government began putting significant pressure on King Ghezo in the 1840s to end the slave trade in Dahomey. King Ghezo responded to these requests by emphasizing that he was unable to end the slave trade because of domestic pressure. He explained to them that the entire region had become dependent on the slave trading, so ending immediately would destabilize his kingdom and lead to anarchy. King William Dappa Pepple of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bonny" title="Kingdom of Bonny">Bonny</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kosoko" title="Kosoko">King Kosoko</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oba_of_Lagos" title="Oba of Lagos">Lagos</a> took the same stance toward the British requests. Instead, King Ghezo proposed an expansion of the <a href="/wiki/Palm_oil" title="Palm oil">palm oil</a> trade and gradual abolition of the slave trade.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>King Ghezo's reign was marked by great battles and significant changes to the empire, including the elevation of the <a href="/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons" title="Dahomey Amazons">Agojie</a>. These "Dahomey Amazon" were pivotal to the defeat of Oyo Empire. His reign also cemented the Kingdom of Dahomey as one of the most powerful African kingdoms that stood against British attempts, with <a href="/wiki/Egba_people" title="Egba people">Egba</a> support, at converting people to Christianity, and maintained their <a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">traditional religion</a>, known as <a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">Vodun</a>. He abolished the human sacrifice of slaves and removed the death penalty for certain lesser offenses, such as adultery. Despite the kingdom's history of brutality, King Ghezo was often characterized as honorable and unconquerable, even by his enemies. British missionary <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Birch_Freeman" title="Thomas Birch Freeman">Thomas Birch Freeman</a> also depicted him as "one of the most remarkable men of his age, whether we consider him in his private capacity as a man, or as a warrior and a statesmen."<sup id="cite_ref-:1_16-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="End">End</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: End"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png/350px-Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png" decoding="async" width="350" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png/525px-Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png/700px-Scramble-for-Africa-1880-1913-v2.png 2x" data-file-width="2280" data-file-height="1130" /></a><figcaption>Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913</figcaption></figure> <p>The kingdom fought the <a href="/wiki/First_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="First Franco-Dahomean War">First Franco-Dahomean War</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="Second Franco-Dahomean War">Second Franco-Dahomean War</a> with France. The kingdom was reduced and made a French <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">protectorate</a> in 1894.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1904, the area became part of a French colony, <a href="/wiki/French_Dahomey" title="French Dahomey">French Dahomey</a>. </p><p>In 1958, French Dahomey became the self-governing colony called the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Dahomey" title="Republic of Dahomey">Republic of Dahomey</a> and gained full independence in 1960. It was renamed in 1975 the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Benin" title="People's Republic of Benin">People's Republic of Benin</a> and in 1991 the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Benin" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Benin">Republic of Benin</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modernity">Modernity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Modernity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Today, the kingdom continues to exist as a <a href="/wiki/Constituent_monarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituent monarchy">constituent monarchy</a> located within Benin. Its rulers no longer hold any official powers under Benin's constitution, but they retain some political and economic influence.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modern kings participate in important <a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">Vodun</a> religious festivals and other traditional ceremonies.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early writings often presented the kingdom as an <a href="/wiki/Absolute_monarchy" title="Absolute monarchy">absolute monarchy</a> led by a <a href="/wiki/Despotism" title="Despotism">despotic</a> king. These depictions were often deployed as arguments by different sides in the slave trade debates, mainly in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, and as such were probably exaggerations.<sup id="cite_ref-Bay-1998_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bay-1998-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Law-1986_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law-1986-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Recent historical work has emphasized the limits of monarchical power in the Kingdom of Dahomey.<sup id="cite_ref-Monroe_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monroe-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historian John C. Yoder, with attention to the Great Council in the kingdom, argued that its activities do not "imply that Dahomey's government was democratic or even that her politics approximated those of nineteenth-century European monarchies. Such evidence supports the thesis that governmental decisions were molded by conscious responses to internal political pressures as well as by executive fiat."<sup id="cite_ref-Yoder_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yoder-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The primary political divisions revolved around villages with chiefs and administrative posts appointed by the king and acting as his representatives to adjudicate disputes in the village.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="King">King</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: King"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/King_of_Dahomey" title="King of Dahomey">King of Dahomey</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gezo_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Gezo_%282%29.jpg/220px-Gezo_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="373" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Gezo_%282%29.jpg/330px-Gezo_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Gezo_%282%29.jpg/440px-Gezo_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="448" data-file-height="760" /></a><figcaption>King <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Ghezo</a> displayed with a royal umbrella</figcaption></figure> <p>The King of Dahomey (<i>Ahosu</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Fon_language" title="Fon language">Fon language</a>) was the <a href="/wiki/Sovereignty" title="Sovereignty">sovereign power</a> of the kingdom. All of the kings claimed to be part of the <i>Alladaxonou</i> dynasty, claiming descent from the royal family in <a href="/wiki/Allada" title="Allada">Allada</a>. Much of the succession rules and administrative structures were created early by Kings <a href="/wiki/Houegbadja" title="Houegbadja">Houegbadja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Akaba_of_Dahomey" title="Akaba of Dahomey">Akaba</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Agaja" title="Agaja">Agaja</a>. Succession through the male members of the line was the norm, with the kingship typically (but not always) going to the oldest son.<sup id="cite_ref-Law-1997_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law-1997-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The king was selected largely through discussion and decision in the meetings of the Great Council, although how this operated was not always clear.<sup id="cite_ref-Bay-1998_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bay-1998-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Yoder_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yoder-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Great Council brought together a host of different dignitaries from throughout the kingdom yearly to meet at the <a href="/wiki/Annual_Customs_of_Dahomey" title="Annual Customs of Dahomey">Annual Customs of Dahomey</a>. Discussions would be lengthy and included members, both men and women, from throughout the kingdom. At the end of the discussions, the king would declare the consensus of the group.<sup id="cite_ref-Yoder_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yoder-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_court">Royal court</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Royal court"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Key positions in the King's court included the <i>migan</i> (Prime Minister), the <i>mehu</i> (Finance Minister), the <i>yovogan</i>, the <i>tokpo</i> (Minister of Agriculture), the <i>agan</i> (general of the army), the <i>kpojito</i> (or queen mother), and later the <i>chacha</i> (or viceroy) of Whydah. Each of these cabinet positions—which, with the exception of the <i>kpojito</i>, were headed by men—had a female counterpart to complement them.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>migan—</i>a combination of <i>mi</i> (our) and <i>gan</i> (chief)—was a primary consul for the king, a key judicial figure, and served as the head executioner. The <i>mehu</i> was similarly a key administrative officer who managed the palaces and the affairs of the royal family, economic matters, and the areas to the south of <a href="/wiki/Allada" title="Allada">Allada</a> (making the position key to contact with Europeans). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Foreign relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FORBES(1851)_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/FORBES%281851%29_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg/250px-FORBES%281851%29_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/FORBES%281851%29_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg/375px-FORBES%281851%29_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/FORBES%281851%29_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg/500px-FORBES%281851%29_p1.102_THE_RECEPTION_OF_THE_AH-HAUSSOO-NOH-BEH.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1789" data-file-height="1247" /></a><figcaption>The reception of the Ah-Haussoo-Noh-Beh in Abomey drawn by Frederick E. Forbes in 1851</figcaption></figure> <p>The relations between Dahomey and other countries were complex and heavily impacted by the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">transatlantic slave trade</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazil">Brazil</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Brazil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1750, the Kingdom of Dahomey sent a <a href="/wiki/Diplomatic_mission" title="Diplomatic mission">diplomatic mission</a> to <a href="/wiki/Salvador,_Bahia" title="Salvador, Bahia">Salvador</a>, <a href="/wiki/State_of_Brazil" title="State of Brazil">Portuguese colony of Brazil</a> in order to strengthen diplomatic relations with this <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_colonization_of_the_Americas" title="Portuguese colonization of the Americas">Portuguese colony</a> following an incident which led to the expulsion of Portuguese-Brazilian diplomatic authorities in 1743.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other Dahomey missions were sent to Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1795 to 1805 with the purpose of strengthening relations with Portuguese colonial authorities and slave buyers residing in Brazilian territory, ensuring that they maintained an interest in purchasing enslaved people supplied by Dahomey rather than rival kingdoms.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also recorded that in 1823, the Kingdom of Dahomey formally recognized <a href="/wiki/Independence_of_Brazil" title="Independence of Brazil">Brazil's independence</a>, making it one of the first political <a href="/wiki/State_(polity)" title="State (polity)">entities</a> in the world to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">transatlantic slave trade</a> between Brazil and Dahomey remained intense even under pressure from the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom</a> for its <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Abolitionism in the United Kingdom">abolition</a>. <a href="/wiki/Francisco_F%C3%A9lix_de_Sousa" title="Francisco Félix de Sousa">Francisco Félix de Sousa</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">former enslaved</a> person and later a major <a href="/wiki/Slave-trader" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave-trader">slave trader</a> in the Dahomey region, became a politically influential figure in that kingdom after the ascent of <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Guezo</a> to the Dahomean throne. He was granted the honorary title of Chachá, vice-king of Ajudá, and a monopoly on the exportation of slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="France">France</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: France"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/First_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="First Franco-Dahomean War">First Franco-Dahomean War</a> and <a href="/wiki/Second_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="Second Franco-Dahomean War">Second Franco-Dahomean War</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg/220px-Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg/330px-Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg/440px-Behanzin-Goho-1895.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="549" /></a><figcaption>In 1894, the last King of Dahomey, <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" title="Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a>, surrendered his person to <a href="/wiki/Alfred-Am%C3%A9d%C3%A9e_Dodds" title="Alfred-Amédée Dodds">Alfred-Amédée Dodds</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1861, the kingdom of <a href="/wiki/Porto-Novo" title="Porto-Novo">Porto-Novo</a>, one of Dahomey's tributaries, was attacked by the <a href="/wiki/British_Royal_Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="British Royal Navy">British Royal Navy</a>, which was participating in anti-slaving patrols.<sup id="cite_ref-alpern_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alpern-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Porto-Novo asked for protection from France and became a French protectorate as a result in 1863. This status was rejected by King <a href="/wiki/Behanzin" class="mw-redirect" title="Behanzin">Behanzin</a>, who still declared Porto-Novo to be a tributary of Dahomey. Another issue of contention was the status of <a href="/wiki/Cotonou" title="Cotonou">Cotonou</a>, a port the French believed was under their control because of a treaty signed by Dahomey's representative in <a href="/wiki/Ouidah" title="Ouidah">Whydah</a>. Dahomey ignored all French claims there as well and continued to collect customs from the port. These territorial disputes escalated into the <a href="/wiki/First_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="First Franco-Dahomean War">First Franco-Dahomean War</a> in 1890, resulting in French victory. Dahomey was forced to sign a treaty surrendering Porto-Novo and Cotonou to the French. It later returned to raiding the area and disregarded French complaints, triggering the <a href="/wiki/Second_Franco-Dahomean_War" title="Second Franco-Dahomean War">Second Franco-Dahomean War</a> in 1892. The kingdom was defeated in 1894, it was annexed into the <a href="/wiki/French_colonial_empire" title="French colonial empire">French colonial empire</a> as <a href="/wiki/French_Dahomey" title="French Dahomey">French Dahomey</a>, and King Behanzin was exiled to <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Portugal">Portugal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Portugal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Portuguese fort at <a href="/wiki/Ouidah" title="Ouidah">Ouidah</a> was destroyed by the army of Dahomey in 1743 during its conquest of the city, so King <a href="/wiki/Tegbesu" title="Tegbesu">Tegbesu</a> desired to renew relations with Portugal.<sup id="cite_ref-araujo_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-araujo-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey sent at least five embassies to Portugal and Brazil during the years of 1750, 1795, 1805, 1811 and 1818, with the goal of negotiating the terms of the Atlantic slave trade. These missions created an official correspondence between the kings of Dahomey and the kings of Portugal, and gifts were exchanged between them. The Portuguese Crown paid for the expenses travel and accommodation expenses of Dahomey's ambassadors, who traveled between <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salvador,_Bahia" title="Salvador, Bahia">Salvador, Bahia</a>. The embassies of 1805 and 1811 brought letters from King <a href="/wiki/Adandozan" title="Adandozan">Adandozan</a>, who had imprisoned Portuguese subjects in the Dahomean capital of <a href="/wiki/Abomey" title="Abomey">Abomey</a> and requested for Portugal to trade exclusively at Ouidah. Portugal promised to answer to his demands if he released the prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-araujo_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-araujo-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> A long and detailed letter from King Adandonzan dated 9 October 1810 shows that he had knowledge of the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a> and the subsequent <a href="/wiki/Transfer_of_the_Portuguese_court_to_Brazil" title="Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil">exile of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil</a>, and he expressed remorse that he was not able to help the Portuguese royal family during their war against France.<sup id="cite_ref-araujo_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-araujo-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Soon the news that Your Royal Majesty and all the Royal family were made prisoners of the French, who took <a href="/wiki/Lisbon" title="Lisbon">Lisbon</a>, as well as the King of Spain, started arriving. Some time passed and another vessel came and brought other news that Your Royal Majesty and Our Sovereign Mother Queen of Portugal had left for the City of Bahia, under the protection of the English and the Portuguese Navy. Then more time passed and another vessel brought news that you have moved to <a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a>, where we know that the Duke of Cadaval deceased, for which I feel sorry and give you my condolences...what I feel the most is to no longer be the neighbour of Our Majesty, and not being able to walk on firm land to give you a help with my arm, so my wish is big, as here I have also fought many wars in the backlands.</p></blockquote><p> After detailing how he defeated the king of the Mahi nation, Adandonzan tells the Portuguese,<sup id="cite_ref-araujo_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-araujo-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>...Give me also news about the Wars, and also give me news about the wars with the French nation and the others, it will make me happy to know about it</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: United Kingdom"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dahomey became a target of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>'s anti-slavery campaign during the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The British sent diplomatic missions to Dahomey in an effort to convince King <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Ghezo</a> to abolish human sacrifice and slave trading. Ghezo did not immediately concede to British demands but attempted to maintain friendly relations with the British by encouraging the growth of new trade in <a href="/wiki/Palm_oil" title="Palm oil">palm oil</a> instead.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1851, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> imposed a naval blockade against Dahomey, forcing Ghezo to sign a treaty in 1852 that immediately abolished the export of slaves. This was broken when slave trading resumed in 1857 and 1858. Historian <a href="/wiki/Martin_Meredith" title="Martin Meredith">Martin Meredith</a> quotes Ghezo telling the British:<sup id="cite_ref-Martin_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Martin-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people. It is the source of their glory and wealth. Their songs celebrate their victories and the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery.</p></blockquote> <p>During a diplomatic mission to Dahomey in 1849, Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy received an enslaved girl (later named <a href="/wiki/Sara_Forbes_Bonetta" title="Sara Forbes Bonetta">Sara Forbes Bonetta</a>) from King Ghezo as a "gift", who would later become a goddaughter to <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="United_States">United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolution</a>, the rebelling <a href="/wiki/United_Colonies" title="United Colonies">United Colonies</a> prohibited the international slave trade for a variety of economic, political, and moral reasons depending on the colony.<sup id="cite_ref-NPL_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPL-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the end of the revolution, U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> signed the <a href="/wiki/Act_Prohibiting_Importation_of_Slaves" title="Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves">Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves</a> in 1807, which federally outlawed the international slave trade, though domestic slavery itself would persist until the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. Thus, the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> never established any formal diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Dahomey. The last known <a href="/wiki/Slave_ship" title="Slave ship">slave ship</a> that sailed to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> secretly and illegally imported 110 slaves from Dahomey, purchased long after the abolition of the slave trade. The story was mentioned in the newspaper <i>The Tarboro Southerner</i> on July 14, 1860. Five days earlier, a schooner called <i><a href="/wiki/Clotilda_(slave_ship)" title="Clotilda (slave ship)">Clotilda</a></i>, captained by William Foster, arrived in the bay of <a href="/wiki/Mobile,_Alabama" title="Mobile, Alabama">Mobile, Alabama</a> carrying the last known shipment of slaves to the U.S. In 1858, an American man named <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Meaher" title="Timothy Meaher">Timothy Meaher</a> made a wager with acquaintances that despite the law banning the slave trade, he could safely bring a load of slaves from Africa. He built the <i>Clotilda</i> slave ship and sent William Foster to captain it and retrieve enslaved Africans. </p><p>Captain William Foster arrived in <a href="/wiki/Ouidah" title="Ouidah">Ouidah</a>, a coastal port of Dahomey, and retrieved 110 slaves. Describing how he came in possession of the slaves, he wrote in his journal in 1860, </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>From thence I went to see the King of Dahomey. Having agreeably transacted affairs with the Prince we went to the warehouse where they had in confinement four thousand captives in a state of nudity from which they gave me liberty to select one hundred and twenty-five as mine offering to brand them for me, from which I preemptorily [sic] forbid; commenced taking on cargo of negroes, successfully securing on board one hundred and ten.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston" title="Zora Neale Hurston">Zora Neale Hurston</a> wrote about her interviews with <a href="/wiki/Oluale_Kossola" class="mw-redirect" title="Oluale Kossola">Oluale Kossola</a>, the last survivor of the <i>Clotilda</i>, in her book <i><a href="/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_Last_%22Black_Cargo%22" title="Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"">Barracoon</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Barracoon_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barracoon-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A notable descendant of a slave from this ship is <a href="/wiki/Ahmir_Khalib_Thompson" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahmir Khalib Thompson">Ahmir Khalib Thompson</a>, an American music artist known as Questlove. Mr. Thompson's story is depicted in the PBS Television show <i><a href="/wiki/Finding_Your_Roots" title="Finding Your Roots">Finding Your Roots</a></i> [Season 4, Episode 9].<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Yoruba">Yoruba</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Yoruba"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a> engaged in frequent conflicts with the Kingdom of Dahomey and Dahomey became a <a href="/wiki/Tributary_state" title="Tributary state">tributary</a> of the Oyo from 1732 until 1823. The city-state of <a href="/wiki/Porto-Novo" title="Porto-Novo">Porto-Novo</a>, under the protection of Oyo, and Dahomey had a long-standing rivalry largely over control of the slave trade along the coast. The rise of <a href="/wiki/Abeokuta" title="Abeokuta">Abeokuta</a> in the 1840s created another power rivaling Dahomey, largely by creating a safe haven for people from the slave trade.<sup id="cite_ref-Yoder_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yoder-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Notable <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba people</a> who were captured by Dahomey in slave raids following the collapse of the Oyo Empire include <a href="/wiki/Sara_Forbes_Bonetta" title="Sara Forbes Bonetta">Sara Forbes Bonetta</a> (Aina), <a href="/wiki/Cudjoe_Lewis" title="Cudjoe Lewis">Cudjoe Lewis</a> (Oluale Kossola), <a href="/wiki/Matilda_McCrear" title="Matilda McCrear">Matilda McCrear</a> (Abake), <a href="/wiki/Redoshi" title="Redoshi">Redoshi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Seriki_Williams_Abass" title="Seriki Williams Abass">Seriki Williams Abass</a> (Ifaremilekun Fagbemi). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military">Military</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The military of the Kingdom of Dahomey was divided into two units: the right and the left. The right was controlled by the <i>migan</i> and the left was controlled by the <i>mehu</i>. At least by the time of <a href="/wiki/Agaja" title="Agaja">Agaja</a>, the kingdom had developed a <a href="/wiki/Standing_army" title="Standing army">standing army</a> that remained encamped wherever the king was. Soldiers in the army were recruited as young as seven or eight years old, initially serving as shield carriers for regular soldiers. After years of <a href="/wiki/Apprenticeship" title="Apprenticeship">apprenticeship</a> and military experience, they were allowed to join the army as regular soldiers. To further incentivize the soldiers, each soldier received bonuses paid in cowry shells for each enemy they killed or captured in battle. This combination of lifelong military experience and monetary incentives resulted in a cohesive, well-disciplined military.<sup id="cite_ref-Harms_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harms-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One European said Agaja's standing army consisted of "elite troops, brave and well-disciplined, led by a prince full of valor and prudence, supported by a staff of experienced officers".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The army consisted of 15,000 personnel which was divided into right, left, center and reserve; and in each of these was further divided into <a href="/wiki/Company_(military_unit)" title="Company (military unit)">companies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Platoons" class="mw-redirect" title="Platoons">platoons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RA_Kea._Firearms_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RA_Kea._Firearms-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to being well trained, the Dahomey army under Agaja was also very well armed. The Dahomey army favored imported European weapons as opposed to traditional weapons. For example, they used European <a href="/wiki/Flintlock" title="Flintlock">flintlock</a> <a href="/wiki/Musket" title="Musket">muskets</a> in long-range combat and imported steel swords and cutlasses in close combat. The Dahomey army also possessed twenty-five cannons. By the late 19th century, Dahomey had a large arsenal of weapons. These included the <a href="/wiki/Chassepot" title="Chassepot">Chassepot</a> <a href="/wiki/Dreyse_needle_gun" title="Dreyse needle gun">Dreyse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mauser_Model_1871" title="Mauser Model 1871">Mauser</a>, <a href="/wiki/Snider_Enfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Snider Enfield">Snider Enfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/W%C3%A4nzl_rifle" title="Wänzl rifle">Wanzel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Werndl%E2%80%93Holub_rifle" title="Werndl–Holub rifle">Werndl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peabody_action" title="Peabody action">Peabody action</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winchester_rifle" title="Winchester rifle">Winchester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spencer_repeating_rifle" title="Spencer repeating rifle">Spencer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albini-Braendlin_rifle" title="Albini-Braendlin rifle">Albini</a>, Robert Jones <a href="/wiki/Carbine" title="Carbine">carbine</a>, French musketoon 1882 and the <a href="/wiki/Mitrailleuse" title="Mitrailleuse">Mitrailleuse Reffye 1867</a>. Along with firearms, Dahomey employed <a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">mortars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RA_Kea._Firearms_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RA_Kea._Firearms-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When going into battle, the king would take a secondary position to the field commander with the reason given that if any spirit were to punish the commander for decisions it should not be the king.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey units were drilled constantly. They fired on command, employed <a href="/wiki/Musket#Countermarch" title="Musket">countermarch</a>, and formed extended lines from deep columns. Tactics such as <a href="/wiki/Suppressive_fire" title="Suppressive fire">covering fire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frontal_assault" title="Frontal assault">frontal attacks</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flanking_maneuver" title="Flanking maneuver">flanking movements</a> were used in the warfare of Dahomey.<sup id="cite_ref-RA_Kea._Firearms_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RA_Kea._Firearms-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Dahomey Amazons, a unit of all-female soldiers, is one of the most unusual aspects of the military of the kingdom. Unlike other regional powers, the military of Dahomey did not have a significant cavalry (like the Oyo empire) or naval power (which prevented expansion along the coast).<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the 18th century, the state could obtain naval support from <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ardra" title="Kingdom of Ardra">Ardra</a> where they had created a subordinate dynasty after conquering the state in the early 18th century.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey enlisted the services of Ardra's navy against the <a href="/wiki/Epe,_Lagos_State" title="Epe, Lagos State">Epe</a> in 1778 and <a href="/wiki/Badagry" title="Badagry">Badagry</a> in 1783.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Amazons">Amazons</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Amazons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dahomey_Amazons" title="Dahomey Amazons">Dahomey Amazons</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dahomey_amazon2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dahomey_amazon2.jpg/220px-Dahomey_amazon2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dahomey_amazon2.jpg/330px-Dahomey_amazon2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dahomey_amazon2.jpg/440px-Dahomey_amazon2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="819" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption>Dahomey female soldiers</figcaption></figure> <p>The Dahomean state became widely known for its corps of female soldiers. Their origins are debated; they may have formed from a palace guard or from <span title="Fon-language romanization"><i lang="fon-Latn"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gbeto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gbeto (page does not exist)">gbetos</a></i></span> (female hunting teams).<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>They were organized around 1729 to fill out the army and make it look larger in battle, armed only with banners. The women reportedly behaved so courageously they became a permanent corps. In the beginning, the soldiers were criminals pressed into service rather than death. Eventually, the corps was respected enough that King <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Ghezo</a> ordered every family to send him their daughters, with the fittest being chosen as soldiers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (May 2015)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Dahomey#Dubious" title="Talk:Dahomey">discuss</a></i>]</sup> European accounts clarified that seven distinct movements were required to load a <a href="/wiki/Dane_gun" title="Dane gun">Dane gun</a> which took an Amazon 30 seconds in comparison to the 50 seconds it took a Dahomean male soldier to load.<sup id="cite_ref-RA_Kea._Firearms_39-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RA_Kea._Firearms-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Siege_and_engineering">Siege and engineering</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Siege and engineering"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In order to repress the navies of its neighbors, Dahomey built <a href="/wiki/Causeway" title="Causeway">causeways</a> starting from 1774.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During a campaign against <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Whydah" title="Kingdom of Whydah">Whydah</a> that year, Dahomey was able to force Whydah to fortify itself at an island called Foudou-Cong. Dahomey cut trees which were planted in the water to serve as a causeway and bridge the army's access to the fortified Whydah island. The causeway also obstructed the movement of a 700 canoe force belonging to Whydah. As a result, the Whydah army had to survive on the boats for months sustaining its forces with fish diet. According to <a href="/wiki/John_Thornton_(historian)" title="John Thornton (historian)">Thornton</a>, Dahomey used this strategy of siege causeways again in 1776 against another opponent state where it built 3 bridges to connect the island housing the opponent forces.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Coastal belligerents opposing Dahomey allied with European forts against the state. Dahomey was able to capture Dutch and Portuguese forts in the 18th century through the use of ladders and <a href="/wiki/Sapper" title="Sapper">sappers</a>. Thornton writes that in 1737, Dahomey used scale ladders against the Dutch fort in <a href="/wiki/Keta" title="Keta">Keta</a> simultaneously as its sappers built a tunnel under the fort's <a href="/wiki/Bastion" title="Bastion">bastion</a> causing it to collapse when its defenders fired an artillery round within the bastion. A similar tactic was employed against a Portuguese fort with 30 mounted guns at Whydah in 1743 as its bastions collapsed enabling the Dahomey infantry to enter the fort.<sup id="cite_ref-Thornton_1999_85_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thornton_1999_85-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1728, Dahomey forces captured and destroyed a French fort at Whydah by blowing up the magazine that held the fort's ammunition and gunpowder.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Thornton_1999_85_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thornton_1999_85-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another tactic for attacking coastal forts was the burning of nearby villages during a <a href="/wiki/Land_breeze" class="mw-redirect" title="Land breeze">land breeze</a> in order for the wind to carry the flames toward the fort. This tactic was first revealed by a British commander at Whydah in 1728, who countered it by burning the nearby villages during a <a href="/wiki/Sea_breeze" title="Sea breeze">sea breeze</a> to prevent the Dahomeyan army from burning the villages during a land breeze.<sup id="cite_ref-Thornton_1999_85_46-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thornton_1999_85-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result of the threat posed by Oyo in the 18th century, the state built fortifications of its own with the help of a French officer from whom they learnt <a href="/wiki/Field_fortification" class="mw-redirect" title="Field fortification">field fortification</a> and artillery. According to a Dutch source in 1772, the king of Dahomey "has made deep <a href="/wiki/Ditches" class="mw-redirect" title="Ditches">ditches</a> around his entire country as well as walls and batteries mounted with cannons he captured at Fida [Whydah]." Thornton suggests these fortifications were mostly built out of wood.<sup id="cite_ref-Thornton_1999_86_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thornton_1999_86-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dahomey used a tactic of <a href="/wiki/Trench" title="Trench">trench</a> construction against Oyo where its forces withdrew into the trenches after confrontation with the Oyo force. Despite this, Dahomey was overwhelmed by an Oyo siege after the arrival of reinforcement.<sup id="cite_ref-Thornton_1999_86_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Thornton_1999_86-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the mid 18th century, Abomey was surrounded by a ditch accessible by bridges whiles in 1772 the royal residence was surrounded with a mud brick wall 20 feet high, "with <a href="/wiki/Blockhouse" title="Blockhouse">blockhouses</a> on each wall."<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dahomey also built <a href="/wiki/Agongointo-Zoungoudo_Underground_Town" title="Agongointo-Zoungoudo Underground Town">underground chambers</a> in Abomey which served varying functions including that of providing <a href="/wiki/Military_installations" class="mw-redirect" title="Military installations">military installations</a> for the army. These <a href="/wiki/Souterrains" class="mw-redirect" title="Souterrains">souterrains</a> have been dated to the late 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wheeled vehicles are recorded to have been implemented in Dahomeyan warfare. In an operation against Abeokuta in 1864, Dahomey fielded three guns mounted on locally made carriages of which historian Robin Law adds that these weapons did not play an effective role in the battle.<sup id="cite_ref-Law_wheel_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law_wheel-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some references exist about the possible production of guns and gunpowder in Dahomey. In 1880, king <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" title="Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a> informed a French mission that firearms were manufactured in the state. Amid the war with France in 1892, a French expeditionary force discovered tools and resources such as <a href="/wiki/Cartridge_(firearms)" title="Cartridge (firearms)">cartridge</a> cases, signal rockets and electric batteries which are necessary for making cartridges and repairing firearms.<sup id="cite_ref-RA_Kea._Firearms_39-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RA_Kea._Firearms-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The economic structure of the kingdom was highly intertwined with the political and religious systems and these developed together significantly.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The main currency was <a href="/wiki/Cowry" class="mw-redirect" title="Cowry">cowry</a> shells. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic">Domestic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Domestic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The domestic economy largely focused on agriculture and crafts for local consumption. Until the development of palm oil, very little agricultural or craft goods were traded outside of the kingdom. Markets served a key role in the kingdom and were organized around a rotating cycle of four days with a different market each day (the market type for the day was religiously sanctioned).<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Agriculture work was largely decentralized and done by most families. With the expansion of the kingdom, agricultural plantations began to be a common agricultural method in the kingdom. Craftwork was largely dominated by a formal guild system.<sup id="cite_ref-Duignan_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Duignan-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several wealthy citizens stored their cowrie wealth in a building called <i>akueho</i> (cowrie huts) located in the compounds of their houses. Such cowrie huts were designed to protect the cowries from fire and theft. <a href="/wiki/Abiola_F%C3%A9lix_Iroko" title="Abiola Félix Iroko">Iroko</a> argues that this was a form of <a href="/wiki/Banking" class="mw-redirect" title="Banking">banking</a> in Dahomey because the owners of such <i>akueho</i> houses regularly kept the deposits of others in the storehouse which they used as a form of loans to 3rd parties. <a href="/wiki/Jane_I._Guyer" title="Jane I. Guyer">Guyer</a> and Stiansen on the other hand, are skeptical of Iroko's theory.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Taxation">Taxation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Taxation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Herskovits recounts a complex tax system in the kingdom, in which officials who represented the king, the <span title="Fon-language romanization"><i lang="fon-Latn">tokpe</i></span>, gathered data from each village regarding their harvest. Then the king set a tax based upon the level of production and village population. In addition, the king's own land and production were taxed.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After significant road construction undertaken by the kingdom, <a href="/wiki/Toll_booths" class="mw-redirect" title="Toll booths">toll booths</a> were also established that collected yearly taxes based on the goods people carried and their occupation. Officials also sometimes imposed fines for public nuisance before allowing people to pass.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tax officials on road tolls were provided with armed guards.<sup id="cite_ref-Diamond_proto_state_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diamond_proto_state-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Taxes were imposed on craft workers including blacksmiths, weavers and wood cutters for example. <a href="/wiki/Kangaroo_court" title="Kangaroo court">Kangaroo courts</a> could be held at any place such as the market or on roads, presided over by officials recognized by the central government. Such courts could extract some form of tax from the litigants before judging the case.<sup id="cite_ref-Diamond_proto_state_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diamond_proto_state-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the 18th century, prostitution (<i>Ko-si</i>) was licensed by the king. Robert Norris and <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Dalzel" title="Archibald Dalzel">Archibald Dalzel</a> documented in the late 18th century that the central government was responsible for distributing prostitutes throughout the state at a price set by civil decree. Taxes were derived from prostitutes during the annual customs.<sup id="cite_ref-Diamond_proto_state_54-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Diamond_proto_state-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Road">Royal Road</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Royal Road"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An unpaved road system was developed from the port of <a href="/wiki/Ouidah" title="Ouidah">Ouidah</a> through <a href="/wiki/Cana_I" title="Cana I">Cana</a> up to <a href="/wiki/Abomey" title="Abomey">Abomey</a>. Its purpose was to improve the transportation of the king between Cana and Abomey. The Royal Road dates to the 18th century but most primary sources about the road date to the century after. The road stretched over seven miles in a near straight line, between the gates of the two towns and its width was estimated to be 20–30 meters. The road was occasionally kept weeded and cleared with cutlass. Primary sources give varying accounts that the Royal Road was kept cleared every two or three months or even six weeks. The road was shaded by tall trees. The biggest specimen was that of a <a href="/wiki/Bombax" title="Bombax">bombax</a> tree species. Surrounding the road on both sides were intensive farms which Forbes stated in the mid 19th century, to have "rivaled that of the Chinese."<sup id="cite_ref-Alpern_Road_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alpern_Road-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition, religious shrines were lined along the road and Forbes counted 60 of them en route to Abomey. A palace was built halfway along the road by <a href="/wiki/Tegbesu" title="Tegbesu">Tegbesu</a> (1740–1774) to host the king as a resting place during transport. There is a lack of information about security provided across the Royal Road. Primary sources from the mid 19th century indicate that a large pair of <a href="/wiki/Carronades" class="mw-redirect" title="Carronades">carronades</a> was placed on each side of the road near Abomey, which pointed toward Cana. A large number of cannons with diverse <a href="/wiki/Calibers" class="mw-redirect" title="Calibers">calibers</a> were also placed at the road's end before the gates of Cana. Historian Alpern, indicates that the cannons in front of Cana might have served a ceremonial purpose because they lacked carriages to utilize.<sup id="cite_ref-Alpern_Road_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alpern_Road-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slavery">Slavery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Slavery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa" title="Slavery in Africa">Slavery in Africa</a></div> <p>Both domestic slavery and the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a> were important to the economy of Dahomey. Men, women, and children captured by Dahomey in wars and <a href="/wiki/Slave_raid" class="mw-redirect" title="Slave raid">slave raids</a> were sold to European slave traders in exchange for various goods such as rifles, gunpowder, textiles, cowry shells, and alcohol. Dahomey used magical rituals for slave trading. Prior to being sold to Europeans, slaves were forced to march in circles around the "Tree of Forgetfulness" so they would lose memories of their culture, family, and homeland.<sup id="cite_ref-Herr_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herr-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The purpose of this ritual was to prevent the spirits of deceased slaves from returning and seeking revenge against the royalty of Dahomey.<sup id="cite_ref-Herr_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herr-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other war captives who were not intended to be sold to Europeans remained in Dahomey as slaves. There, they worked on royal plantations that supplied food for the army and royal court.<sup id="cite_ref-Brittani_a2_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brittani_a2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some historians such as Watson and Schellinger have argued that the shift from slave trading to a <a href="/wiki/Plantation_economy" title="Plantation economy">plantation economy</a> in the 19th century worsened the social perception of slaves in Dahomey. They cite reasons that slaves before then were treated as members of their master's family and they could attain free status after a generation or two. Following the intensification of palm oil in the state, it became common for slaves to be abused and ill treated. To solve this issue, King Ghezo declared the trial of cases involving the murder of slaves at the Judicial Court in Abomey.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There was a history of large-scale <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">human sacrifice</a> using slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Bushongo mythology">Bushongo</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Kongo_religion" title="Kongo religion">Kongo</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Lozi_mythology" title="Lozi mythology">Lozi</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Dini_Ya_Msambwa" title="Dini Ya Msambwa">Luhya</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Tumbuka_mythology" title="Tumbuka mythology">Tumbuka</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Zulu_traditional_religion" title="Zulu traditional religion">Zulu</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinka_religion" title="Dinka religion">Dinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogon_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogon religion">Dogon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efik_mythology" title="Efik mythology">Efik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahomean_religion" title="Dahomean religion">Gbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hausa_animism" title="Hausa animism">Hausa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kushite_religion" title="Kushite religion">Nubia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotuko_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Lotuko mythology">Lotuko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugbara_mythology" title="Lugbara mythology">Lugbara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maasai_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Maasai mythology">Maasai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mbuti_mythology" title="Mbuti mythology">Mbuti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odinala" title="Odinala">Odinala</a> (Igbo)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_religion" title="San religion">San</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serer_religion" title="Serer religion">Serer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">Vodun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waaqeffanna" title="Waaqeffanna">Waaqeffanna</a> (Oromo)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="border-top:solid 1px 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/The_c%C3%A9l%C3%A9bration_at_Abomey%281908%29._-_The_veteran_amazones%28_AHOSI_%29_of_the_Fon_king_B%C3%A9hanzin%2C_Son_of_Roi_G%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg/300px-The_c%C3%A9l%C3%A9bration_at_Abomey%281908%29._-_The_veteran_amazones%28_AHOSI_%29_of_the_Fon_king_B%C3%A9hanzin%2C_Son_of_Roi_G%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/The_c%C3%A9l%C3%A9bration_at_Abomey%281908%29._-_The_veteran_amazones%28_AHOSI_%29_of_the_Fon_king_B%C3%A9hanzin%2C_Son_of_Roi_G%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg/400px-The_c%C3%A9l%C3%A9bration_at_Abomey%281908%29._-_The_veteran_amazones%28_AHOSI_%29_of_the_Fon_king_B%C3%A9hanzin%2C_Son_of_Roi_G%C3%A9l%C3%A9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="513" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Left: Dance of the Fon chiefs during celebrations. Right: The celebration at Abomey (1908). Veteran warriors of the Fon king <a href="/wiki/B%C3%A9hanzin" title="Béhanzin">Béhanzin</a>, son of king <a href="/wiki/Glele" title="Glele">Glele</a>.</div></div></div></div> <p>The Kingdom of Dahomey shared many religious rituals with surrounding populations. It also developed unique ceremonies, beliefs, and religious stories. These included royal ancestor worship and <a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">West African Vodun</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_ancestor_worship">Royal ancestor worship</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Royal ancestor worship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Annual_Customs_of_Dahomey" title="Annual Customs of Dahomey">Annual Customs of Dahomey</a></div> <p>Early kings established clear worship of royal ancestors and centralized their ceremonies in the <a href="/wiki/Annual_Customs_of_Dahomey" title="Annual Customs of Dahomey">Annual Customs of Dahomey</a>. The spirits of the kings had an exalted position in the land of the dead and it was necessary to get their permission for many activities on earth.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ancestor worship predated the kingdom of Dahomey; under King Agaja, a cycle of ritual was created centered on first celebrating the ancestors of the king and then celebrating a family lineage.<sup id="cite_ref-Monroe_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monroe-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Annual Customs of Dahomey (<span title="Fon-language romanization"><i lang="fon-Latn">xwetanu</i></span> or <span title="Fon-language romanization"><i lang="fon-Latn">huetanu</i></span> in Fon) involved multiple elaborate components and some aspects may have been added in the 19th century. In general, the celebration involved distribution of gifts, <a href="/wiki/Human_sacrifice" title="Human sacrifice">human sacrifice</a>, military parades, and political councils. Its main religious aspect was to offer thanks and gain the approval for ancestors of the royal lineage.<sup id="cite_ref-Monroe_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monroe-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Human sacrifice was an important part of the practice. During the Annual Custom, 500 prisoners would be sacrificed. In addition, when a ruler died, hundreds, to thousands of prisoners would be sacrificed. In 1727, an English trader alleged that he witness the Dahomey massacre 400 people during a <a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">Vodun</a> ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number is also often reported to be 4,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Death_by_government_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Death_by_government-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Human sacrifice was often exaggerated by contemporary <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">anti-abolitionist</a> Western authors, who sought to justify the continued need for slavery as a means to "rescue" Africans from a worse fate in Dahomey.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cosmology">Cosmology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Cosmology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dahomey had a unique form of <a href="/wiki/West_African_Vodun" class="mw-redirect" title="West African Vodun">West African Vodun</a> that linked together preexisting animist traditions with vodun practices. Oral history recounted that <a href="/wiki/Hwanjile" title="Hwanjile">Hwanjile</a>, a wife of <a href="/wiki/Agaja" title="Agaja">Agaja</a> and mother of <a href="/wiki/Tegbessou" class="mw-redirect" title="Tegbessou">Tegbessou</a>, brought Vodun to the kingdom and ensured its spread. The primary deity is the combined Mawu-Lisa (Mawu having female characteristics and Lisa having male characteristics) and it is claimed that this god took over the world that was created by their mother Nana-Buluku.<sup id="cite_ref-Herskovits_(Vol._I)_22-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herskovits_(Vol._I)-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mawu-Lisa governs the sky and is the highest pantheon of gods, but other gods exist in the earth and in thunder. Religious practice organized different priesthoods and shrines for each different god and each different pantheon (sky, earth or thunder). Women made up a significant amount of the priest class and the chief priest was always a descendant of <a href="/wiki/Dakodonou" title="Dakodonou">Dakodonou</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bay-1998_11-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bay-1998-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Arts">Arts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg/220px-Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg/330px-Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg/440px-Homme-requin_Dahomey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2182" data-file-height="3285" /></a><figcaption>Zoomorphic representation of Béhanzin as a shark</figcaption></figure> <p>The arts in Dahomey were unique and distinct from the <a href="/wiki/African_art" title="African art">artistic traditions</a> elsewhere in Africa. The arts were substantially supported by the king and his family, had non-religious traditions, assembled multiple different materials, and borrowed widely from other peoples in the region. Common art forms included wood and ivory carving, metalwork (including silver, iron and brass, <a href="/wiki/Appliqu%C3%A9" title="Appliqué">appliqué</a> cloth, and clay <a href="/wiki/Bas-reliefs" class="mw-redirect" title="Bas-reliefs">bas-reliefs</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Blier-1988_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blier-1988-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The king was key in supporting the arts and many of them provided significant sums for artists resulting in the unique development, for the region, of a non-religious artistic tradition in the kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-Livingston_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Livingston-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Artists were not of a specific class but both royalty and commoners made important artistic contributions.<sup id="cite_ref-Blier-1988_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blier-1988-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kings were often depicted in large <a href="/wiki/Zoomorphism" title="Zoomorphism">zoomorphic</a> forms with each king resembling a particular animal in multiple representations.<sup id="cite_ref-Pique_&_Rainer_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pique_&_Rainer-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Suzanne Blier identifies two unique aspects of art in Dahomey: <a href="/wiki/Assemblage_(art)" title="Assemblage (art)">Assemblage</a> of different components and borrowing from other states. Assemblage of art, involving the combination of multiple components (often of different materials) combined in a single piece of art, was common in all forms and was the result of the various kings promoting finished products rather than particular styles.<sup id="cite_ref-Blier-1988_62-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blier-1988-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This assembling may have been a result of the second feature, which involved the wide borrowing of styles and techniques from other cultures and states. Clothing, cloth work, architecture, and the other forms of art all resemble other artistic representation from around the region.<sup id="cite_ref-Blier-2004_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blier-2004-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Much of the artwork revolved around the royalty. Each of the palaces at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Palaces_of_Abomey" title="Royal Palaces of Abomey">Royal Palaces of Abomey</a> contained elaborate <a href="/wiki/Relief" title="Relief">bas-reliefs</a> (<i>noundidė</i> in Fon) providing a record of the king's accomplishments.<sup id="cite_ref-Pique_&_Rainer_64-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pique_&_Rainer-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each king had his own palace within the palace complex and within the outer walls of their personal palace was a series of clay reliefs designed specific to that king. These were not solely designed for royalty and chiefs, temples, and other important buildings had similar reliefs.<sup id="cite_ref-Livingston_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Livingston-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reliefs would present Dahomey kings often in military battles against the Oyo or <a href="/wiki/Mahi_people" title="Mahi people">Mahi</a> tribes to the north of Dahomey with their opponents depicted in various negative depictions (the king of Oyo is depicted in one as a baboon eating a cob of corn). Historical themes dominated representation and characters were basically designed and often assembled on top of each other or in close proximity creating an ensemble effect.<sup id="cite_ref-Livingston_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Livingston-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to the royal depictions in the reliefs, royal members were depicted in power sculptures known as <i>bocio</i>, which incorporated mixed materials (including metal, wood, beads, cloth, fur, feathers, and bone) onto a base forming a standing figure. The bocio are religiously designed to include different forces together to unlock powerful forces.<sup id="cite_ref-Blier-2004_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blier-2004-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, the cloth <a href="/wiki/Appliqu%C3%A9" title="Appliqué">appliqué</a> of Dahomey depicted royalty often in similar zoomorphic representation and dealt with matters similar to the reliefs, often the kings leading during warfare.<sup id="cite_ref-Livingston_63-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Livingston-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Dahomey had a distinctive tradition of casting small brass figures of animals or people, which were worn as jewellery or displayed in the homes of the relatively well-off. These figures, which continue to be made for the tourist trade, were relatively unusual in traditional African art in having no religious aspect, being purely decorative, as well as indicative of some wealth.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also unusual, by being so early and clearly <a href="/wiki/Provenance" title="Provenance">provenanced</a>, is a carved wooden tray (not dissimilar to much more recent examples) in <a href="/wiki/Ulm" title="Ulm">Ulm</a>, Germany, which was brought to Europe before 1659, when it was described in a printed catalogue.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wheeled <a href="/wiki/Carriages" class="mw-redirect" title="Carriages">carriages</a> were used in Dahomey after their introduction into the region of modern Benin in the late 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Law_wheel_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law_wheel-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Alpern_Road_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alpern_Road-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some carriages were manufactured indigenously while most were obtained as gifts from European allies. The carriages were often used for ceremonial purposes and were drawn mostly by men due to the small number of horses in the state. Carriages in Dahomey came in varying sizes and shapes. Some were modelled after ships, elephants and horses. Burton noted that the road between Abomey and the town of Cana, which was about six to seven miles long, was regularly kept weeded for the convenience of the royal carriages.<sup id="cite_ref-Law_wheel_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Law_wheel-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg/220px-PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg/330px-PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg/440px-PAUL_DUNBAR_IN_DAHOMEY_IN_LONDON_1904.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="901" /></a><figcaption>The poster announcing the London premiere of <i>In Dahomey</i> at the <a href="/wiki/Shaftesbury_Theatre" title="Shaftesbury Theatre">Shaftesbury Theatre</a>, 1903</figcaption></figure> <p>The Kingdom of Dahomey has been depicted in a number of different works of <a href="/wiki/Fiction" title="Fiction">fiction</a> or <a href="/wiki/Creative_nonfiction" title="Creative nonfiction">creative nonfiction</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature_and_theatre">Literature and theatre</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Literature and theatre"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the novel <i><a href="/wiki/Robur_the_Conqueror" title="Robur the Conqueror">Robur the Conqueror</a></i> (1886) by <a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne">Jules Verne</a>, the crew and passengers of the <i>Albatross</i> travel to Dahomey, where they interrupt an act of human sacrifice.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Dahomey" title="In Dahomey">In Dahomey</a></i> (1903) was a successful <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> musical, the first full-length Broadway musical written entirely by African Americans, in the early 20th century.</li> <li>Novelist <a href="/wiki/Paul_Hazoum%C3%A9" title="Paul Hazoumé">Paul Hazoumé's</a> first novel <i>Doguicimi</i> (1938) was based on decades of research into the oral traditions of the Kingdom of Dahomey during the reign of King <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Ghezo</a>.</li> <li>The anthropologist Judith Gleason wrote a novel, <i>Agõtĩme: Her Legend</i> (1970), centered on one of the wives of a king of Dahomey in the late 18th century, who offends her husband who sells her to slavery in Brazil; she makes a bargain with a <i>vodu</i> (deity), putting her son on the throne of Dahomey and bringing her home.</li> <li>Another novel tracing the background of a slave, this time in the United States, was <i>The Dahomean</i>, or <i>The Man from Dahomey</i> (1971), by the African-American novelist <a href="/wiki/Frank_Yerby" title="Frank Yerby">Frank Yerby</a>; its hero is an aristocratic warrior.</li> <li>In the third of George McDonald Fraser's <a href="/wiki/The_Flashman_Papers" title="The Flashman Papers">Flashman</a> novels, <i><a href="/wiki/Flash_for_Freedom!" title="Flash for Freedom!">Flash for Freedom!</a></i> (1971), Flashman dabbles in the slave trade and visits Dahomey.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Viceroy_of_Ouidah" title="The Viceroy of Ouidah">The Viceroy of Ouidah</a></i> (1980) by <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Chatwin" title="Bruce Chatwin">Bruce Chatwin</a> is the story of a Brazilian who, hoping to make his fortune from slave trading, sails to Dahomey in 1812, befriending its unbalanced king and coming to a bad end.</li> <li>The main character of one of the two parallel stories in <i>Will Do Magic for Small Change</i> (2016) by <a href="/wiki/Andrea_Hairston" title="Andrea Hairston">Andrea Hairston</a> is Kehinde, a <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> woman forced into the Dahomean army; she struggles with divided loyalty, and after the fall of Behanzin, joins a French entertainment troupe who intend to exhibit her as an Amazon at the <a href="/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition" title="World's Columbian Exposition">Chicago World's Fair</a>.</li> <li>The Booker Prize-winning novel <i>Girl, Woman, Other</i> (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo features a character named Amma who writes and directs a play titled <i>The Last Amazon of Dahomey</i>.</li> <li>Behanzin's resistance to the French attempt to end slave trading and human sacrifice has been central to a number of works. <a href="/wiki/Jean_Pliya" title="Jean Pliya">Jean Pliya's</a> first play <i>Kondo le requin</i> (1967), winner of the Grand Prize for African History Literature, tells the story of Behanzin's struggle to maintain the old order. <a href="/wiki/Maryse_Cond%C3%A9" title="Maryse Condé">Maryse Condé's</a> novel <i>The Last of the African Kings</i> (1992) similarly focuses on Behanzin's resistance and his exile to the Caribbean.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The novel <i>Thread of Gold Beads</i> (2012) by Nike Campbell centers on a daughter of Behanzin; through her eyes, the end of his reign is observed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston" title="Zora Neale Hurston">Zora Neale Hurston's</a> book <i><a href="/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_Last_%22Black_Cargo%22" title="Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"">Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"</a></i>, posthumously published May 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-Barracoon_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barracoon-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film_and_television">Film and television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Film and television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Dahomey's role in the slave trade is the central focus of the film <i><a href="/wiki/Cobra_Verde" title="Cobra Verde">Cobra Verde</a></i> (1987), directed by <a href="/wiki/Werner_Herzog" title="Werner Herzog">Werner Herzog</a> and adapted from the novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Viceroy_of_Ouidah" title="The Viceroy of Ouidah">The Viceroy of Ouidah</a></i> (1980). The main protagonist is a fictional Brazilian slave trader who travels to the kingdom, and the character is based upon the historical Brazilian slave trader <a href="/wiki/Francisco_F%C3%A9lix_de_Sousa" title="Francisco Félix de Sousa">Francisco Félix de Sousa</a>, who was politically and economically influential in Dahomey during the reigns of King <a href="/wiki/Adandozan" title="Adandozan">Adandozan</a> and King <a href="/wiki/Ghezo" title="Ghezo">Ghezo</a>.</li> <li>The historical television drama <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_(British_TV_series)" title="Victoria (British TV series)">Victoria</a></i> (2016) portrays the real-life story of <a href="/wiki/Sara_Forbes_Bonetta" title="Sara Forbes Bonetta">Sara Forbes Bonetta</a> being freed from slavery in Dahomey in season 2 episode 17 ("Comfort and Joy").</li> <li>The Dahomey Amazons are depicted in the film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Woman_King" title="The Woman King">The Woman King</a></i> (2022), directed by <a href="/wiki/Gina_Prince-Bythewood" title="Gina Prince-Bythewood">Gina Prince-Bythewood</a>.</li> <li>A documentary titled <i><a href="/wiki/Dahomey_(film)" title="Dahomey (film)">Dahomey</a></i> directed by <a href="/wiki/Mati_Diop" title="Mati Diop">Mati Diop</a>, an international co-production among France, Senegal and Benin, was selected in the Competition at the <a href="/wiki/74th_Berlin_International_Film_Festival" title="74th Berlin International Film Festival">74th Berlin International Film Festival</a> to be held from 15 to 25 February 2024, where it will compete for the <a href="/wiki/Golden_Bear" title="Golden Bear">Golden Bear</a>. It is about return of 26 of the royal treasures of the Kingdom of Dahomey to Benin.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Video_games">Video games</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dahomey has been depicted in some historical <a href="/wiki/Strategy_video_game" title="Strategy video game">war strategy video games</a>. </p> <ul><li>The Dahomey Amazons appear in the historical strategy video game <i><a href="/wiki/Empire:_Total_War" title="Empire: Total War">Empire: Total War</a></i> (2009), developed by <a href="/wiki/Creative_Assembly" title="Creative Assembly">Creative Assembly</a>.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Grand_strategy_wargame" title="Grand strategy wargame">grand strategy</a> video games <i><a href="/wiki/Europa_Universalis_IV" title="Europa Universalis IV">Europa Universalis IV</a></i> (2013) and <i><a href="/wiki/Victoria_3" title="Victoria 3">Victoria 3</a></i> (2022), both developed by <a href="/wiki/Paradox_Interactive" title="Paradox Interactive">Paradox Interactive</a>, Dahomey appears as one of many historical nations that players can play as or interact with.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 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1823.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Heywood-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Heywood_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Heywood_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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.citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHeywood,_Linda_M.John_K._Thornton2009" class="citation book cs1">Heywood, Linda M.; John K. Thornton (2009). "Kongo and Dahomey, 1660–1815". In Bailyn, Bernard & Patricia L. Denault (ed.). <i>Soundings in Atlantic history: latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500–1830</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 28,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Cineuropa&rft.atitle=The+Berlinale+unveils+its+Competition+and+Encounters+titles&rft.date=2024-01-22&rft.aulast=Abbatescianni&rft.aufirst=Davide&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcineuropa.org%2Fen%2Fnewsdetail%2F455195&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADahomey" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dahomey&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAlpern1999" class="citation book cs1">Alpern, Stanley B. (1999). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/amazonsofblacksp0000alpe"><i>Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey</i></a></span>. New York: New York University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0814706789" title="Special:BookSources/0814706789"><bdi>0814706789</bdi></a>. <q>In-depth description of the fighting methods of these warriors.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Amazons+of+Black+Sparta%3A+The+Women+Warriors+of+Dahomey&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=New+York+University+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=0814706789&rft.aulast=Alpern&rft.aufirst=Stanley+B.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Famazonsofblacksp0000alpe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADahomey" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBay1999" class="citation book cs1">Bay, Edna G. (1999). <i>Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey</i>. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0813917924" title="Special:BookSources/978-0813917924"><bdi>978-0813917924</bdi></a>. <q>A historical study of how royal power maintained itself in Dahomey. Bay and Alpern disagree in their interpretation of the women warriors.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wives+of+the+Leopard%3A+Gender%2C+Politics%2C+and+Culture+in+the+Kingdom+of+Dahomey&rft.place=Charlottesville&rft.pub=University+of+Virginia+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-0813917924&rft.aulast=Bay&rft.aufirst=Edna+G.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADahomey" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBay2008" class="citation book cs1">Bay, Edna G. (2008). <i>Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art</i>. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0252032554" title="Special:BookSources/978-0252032554"><bdi>978-0252032554</bdi></a>. <q>Dahomean artistic and cultural history seen through the development (up to the present) of a single ceremonial object, the <i>Asen</i>.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Asen%2C+Ancestors%2C+and+Vodun%3A+Tracing+Change+in+African+Art&rft.place=Champaign&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0252032554&rft.aulast=Bay&rft.aufirst=Edna+G.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADahomey" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLaw2004" class="citation book cs1">Law, Robin (2004). <i>Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving 'Port', 1727–1892</i>. 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