Dahomey at the Height of Its Power
1769
The West African kingdom of Dahomey, under King Kpengla, ruled Ouidah and supplied the Atlantic slave trade with tens of thousands of captives taken in wars against neighbors. Its famous female warriors - later called Amazons by European visitors - drilled in the royal palace. European slave captains waited offshore with rum and muskets.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.