Oyo Expansion
1628
In what is now southwestern Nigeria, the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo, with its disciplined cavalry and elaborate royal council, expanded into a regional power dominating much of the lower Niger region. Its kings ruled a ritual empire in which the alaafin held ceremonial supremacy and the Oyo Mesi council checked him in practice.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.