the history of benin kingdom

According to Edo oral tradition, during the reign of the last Ogiso, his son and heir apparent, Ekaladerhan, was sentenced to death because one of the Queens deliberately change… 13th–19th century). Their ruler was called Ogiso.Nearly 36 known Ogiso are accounted for as rulers of this initial incarnation of the state. By the 1400s, they had created a wealthy kingdom with a powerful ruler, known as the Oba. By the 1st century BCE, the Benin territory was partially agricultural; and it became primarily agricultural by around 500 CE, but hunting and gathering still remained important. With better tools to use in agriculture, crop yields improved. The region of southern West Africa was introduced to (or developed itself) iron-working technology from at least the 9th century CE. The kingdom of Benin began in the 900s when the Edo people settled in the rainforests of West Africa. The original name of the Benin Empire, at its creation some time in the first millennium CE, was Igodomigodo, as its inhabitants called it.

Tradition asserts that the Edo people became dissatisfied with the rule of a dynasty of semimythical kings, the ogisos, and in the 13th century they invited Prince Oranmiyan of Ife to rule The Kingdom of Ife, located in today’s Nigeria lik…

Peoples of the rain- and dry forest belt which runs across the southern part of West Africa made clearings for their villages and successfully grew crops such as yams, bananas, and oil palm kernels. By the 1400s they had created a wealthy kingdom with a powerful ruler, known as the Oba. The kingdom of Benin began in the 900s when the Edo people settled in the rainforests of West Africa. Also by 500 CE, iron was in use by the inhabitants of the Benin territory. Benin, one of the principal historic kingdoms of the western African forest region (fl.