Dahomey: Diferenzas entre revisións

 

For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Kingdom of Dahomey was a key regional state, eventually ending tributary status to the [[Oyo Empire]].<ref name=Heywood>{{cite book|title=Soundings in Atlantic history: latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500–1830|year=2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, MA|author=Heywood, Linda M.|author2=John K. Thornton|editor=Bailyn, Bernard & Patricia L. Denault|chapter=Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815}}</ref> The Kingdom of Dahomey was an important regional power that had an organized domestic economy built on conquest and slave labor,<ref name=Polanyi>{{cite book|title=Dahomey and the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economy|last=Polanyi|first=Karl|location=Seattle|publisher=University of Washington Press|year=1966}}</ref> significant international trade with Europeans, a centralized administration, taxation systems, and an organized military. Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the [[Dahomey Amazons]] by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of [[West African Vodun|Vodun]] with the large festival of the [[Annual Customs of Dahomey]]. They traded prisoners, which they captured during wars and raids, and exchanged them with Europeans for goods such as knives, bayonets, firearms, fabrics, and spirits.

 

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