What were the origins of Oyo and Dahomey?

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What were the origins of Oyo and Dahomey?

By the end of this lesson you will… Have an understanding of the early development of the kingdoms of Oyo and Dahomey

Where are the kingdoms located?

Where are the kingdoms located? They straddle the border of what is today Benin and Nigeria Oyo is located some distance inland They were in savannah grasslands which facilitated agriculture, mobility and the development of state infrastructures of taxation, transport and military control They were protected from coastal raids by geographical features:- Dahomey – the Mahi swamplands and forests – kings sought to keep this wild Oyo – thick forests which stretched north of the lagoon at Lagos

What were the origins of Oyo? It was a Yoruba kingdom The Yoruba people were the most populous people of southern Nigeria Their origins went back to at least C14 They claim an origin at the city of Ile-Ife, the spiritual heartland of Yoruba peoples It is said to have been founded by Oranmiyan, one of the sons of Oduduwa who dispersed from Ile-Ife Migrants then appeared from the kingdoms of Borgu and Nupe further north, each situated between the Hausa kingdoms around the city of Kano and the Yoruba heartlands to the south

How did the kingdom of Oyo develop? They traded with trans-Saharan Arab merchants Nupe was also a major cloth-producer C16 – Nupe united as a kingdom It fought with Oyo for supremacy Early C16 – Nupe invaders crossed the Niger river and sacked the Oyo capital at Oyo-Ile, founding major towns in the northern part of what would become the kingdom of Oyo By 1600 Oyo had stopped the Nupe advance and was becoming a regional power

What were the origins of Dahomey? Their rise occurred later – in the early C18 C17 – the major kingdom in the region of modern-day southern Benin was Allada, a kingdom of Aja people who had also borrowed many Yoruba traditions Allada was a major trading partner of Europeans, sending cloth, ivory and enslaved Africans to the Dutch, Portuguese and French Allada also had a heavy connection to Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea

How did the kingdom of Dahomey develop? 1660s – Allada was weakened as the growth of trade led to the king of Hueda (Whydah) becoming more powerful The king of Allada sent embassies for help to Spain in 1658 and France in 1670 but to no avail European traders then moved their forts to Hueda:- 1682 – Netherlands 1683 – England 1684 - Brandenburgers

How did this affect Dahomey? 1620-1650 – Dahomey was founded – it was a small kingdom 1704 – the Europeans signed a 6-clause convention with Whydah Whydah’s internal strength then began to weaken Agaja, the king of Dahomey, saw his opportunity 1724 – Agaja conquered Allada 1727 – he conquered Whydah Dahomey then became the most powerful kingdom in the region

What was the relationship between Oyo and Dahomey? In the second half of C18, Dahomey was a tributary to Oyo but was still feared by surrounding smaller kingdoms Its access to European trade and its dominance over the kingdoms of Allada and Whydah made the port of Ouidah the major trading port in the region Trading access to the coast for Oyo often required mediation through Dahomeyan territory The customs and beliefs of the two kingdoms became intertwined – they shared interests in trade and an intermediary position between trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan commerce Customs and beliefs in one influenced the other

For you to do… Read the article by David Ross: Robert Norris, Agaja, and the Dahomean Conqest of Allada and Whydah and answer the questions on your sheet