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 Dahomey - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The origins of Dahomey can be traced back to a group of Aja from the coastal kingdom of Allada who moved northwards and settled among the Fon people of the interior.
Based in his capital of Agbome, Wegbaja and his successors succeeded in establishing a highly centralized state with a deep-rooted kingship cult of sacrificial offerings, including human sacrifices, to the ancestors of the monarch.
As Dahomey's kings embarked on wars to expand their territory, they began using rifles and other firearms traded with French and Spanish slave-traders for young men captured in battle, who fetched a very high price from the European slave-merchants.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Dahomey   (554 words)

  
 Dahomey info here at en.about-gasoline-alley.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Based in capital of Agbome, Wegbaja and successors succeeded in put ining a tremendously centralized form with a deep-rooted kingship cult of sacrificial offerings, inclusive of a excessive preeminence on creatural sacrifices in stupendous numbers, to the ancestors of the monarch.
Human sacrifices only made in propagation of war, pestilence, calamity, and on the ruination of kings and chiefs, they were withal made regularly in the year-end custom, which was believed to source deceased kings with a native standard of servants.
Economically, however, Wegbaja and successors profited mostly from the slave trade and kindreds with slavers onward the coast.
en.about-gasoline-alley.info /Dahomey   (917 words)

  
 Dahomey info here at en.air-treatment.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Based in their capital of Agbome, Wegbaja and their successors succeeded in originating a horrendous centralized eventuality with a deep-rooted kingship cult of sacrificial offerings, together with a weighty impressiveness on fallible sacrifices in vast numbers, to the ancestors of the monarch.
Human sacrifices weren't only made in date of war, pestilence, calamity, and on the downfall of kings and chiefs, they were other made regularly in the each year custom, which was believed to stock deceased kings with a pullulating cluster of servants.
Economically, however, Wegbaja and their successors profited above total from the slave trade and associations with slavers onward the coast.
en.air-treatment.info /Dahomey   (847 words)

  
 Dahomey info here at en.assessment-development-training.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The origins of Dahomey can be traced back to a cluster of Aja from the coastal kingdom of Allada who moved northwards und disclosed encompassed by the Fon people of the interior.
Based in their capital of Agbome, Wegbaja und their successors succeeded in endowing a profoundly centralized scope with a deep-rooted kingship cult of sacrificial offerings, along with a weighty underlined on fleshly sacrifices in immeasurable numbers, to the ancestors of the monarch.
Economically, however, Wegbaja und their successors profited predominantly from the slave trade und alliances with slavers on the coast.
en.assessment-development-training.info /Dahomey   (850 words)

  
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 Sub-Saharan Africa, to 1700
The brother, Do-Aklin, cut off village chiefs from having any say in selecting his successor.
Rule in Abomey passed to his grandson, Wegbaja, who consolidated his power - while both and Allada and Abomey were paying tribute to the more powerful kingdom of Oyo.
In Abomey human sacrifices were used to honor the king's ancestors – the sacrifices usually captives from warfare.
www.fsmitha.com /h3/h28af3.html   (4655 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Family was organized into immediate and extended family vs. geographically distant family (Pinn 12).
Eventually these small bodies came under the administration of a serious of divine kings, (beginning with King Wegbaja) who reigned for nearly two hundred years before they were defeated by the Portuguese, Germans, and eventually taken over by the French (Hounon 2), The ancestors of the first royal line hailed from Adja-Tado.
According to legend, the King of Adja-Tado’s daughter was impregnated by a leopard (circ 1300), and her child, Agasu is the ancestor of all the Fon of Dahomey and all of the royal leaders of that kingdom.
www.aidenraine.com /art/papers/vodou.doc   (2495 words)

  
 BOOK—1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dire times in their kingdom called for autocratic rule.
About 1650 King Wegbaja became elevated to a high office thought to be the very soul of his people.
King Akaba followed him in 1685, then by the strong King Agaja who ruled from 1708-1740.
carbon.cudenver.edu /~emendons/note2.html   (12100 words)

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