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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 rifles, gunpowder, fabrics, cowrie shells, tobacco, pipes, and alcohol.
El Reino de Dahomey fue un antiguo Estado africano que se distinguió por su ejército de mujeres soldado (amazonas de Dahomey) y como centro de la trata de esclavos en el siglo XVIII.
La República de Dahomey (en francés: République du Dahomey) fue establecida el 11 de diciembre de 1958, como un autogobierno de una colonia de la Comunidad Francesa antes de alcanzar la autonomía de lo que había sido el Dahomey francés, como parte de la Unión Francesa.
Dahomey, kingdom in western Africa that flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries in the region that is now southern Benin. According to tradition, at the beginning of the 17th century three brothers vied for the kingdom of Allada, which, like neighbouring Whydah (now Ouidah), had grown rich on the.
28 de nov. de 2021 · Fieras e implacables guerreras, las conocidas como Amazonas de Dahomey fueron un ejército de mujeres que durante doscientos años lucharon con valentía para defender su territorio y a su rey, al que sirvieron de manera eficaz incluso durante la colonización de África por parte de los europeos.
The Republic of Dahomey (French: République du Dahomey; pronounced), simply known as Dahomey (Fon: Danhomè), was established on 4 December 1958, as a self-governing colony within the French Community. Prior to attaining autonomy, it had been French Dahomey, part of the French Union.
14 de sept. de 2022 · In the 17th century, Dahomey flourished under the protection of its all-woman military regiment that inspired Viola Davis's acclaimed film The Woman King.
The History of the Kingdom of Dahomey spans 400 years from around 1600 until 1904 with the rise of the Kingdom of Dahomey as a major power on the Atlantic coast of modern-day Benin until French conquest.
Dahomey, a precolonial West African kingdom, is located in what is now southern Benin. Founded in the seventeenth century, Dahomey reached the height of its power and prestige during the heyday of the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
9 de oct. de 2018 · The Kingdom of Dahomey, also called the Fon kingdom of Dahomey, was a small kingdom in western Africa (now in the southern region of Benin). It was developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast.
