Dahomey

Masarautar Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) masarauta ce ta Yammacin Afirka da ke cikin Benin ta yanzu wacce ta wanzu daga kimanin shekara ta 1600 har zuwa shekarar 1904. Ya ci gaba a kan Abomey Plateau tsakanin Mutanen Fon a farkon karni na 17 kuma ya zama ikon yanki a karni na 18 ta hanyar faɗaɗa kudu don cinye manyan birane kamar Whydah na Masarautar Whydah a bakin tekun Atlantic wanda ya ba shi damar shiga cinikin bayi na Atlantika.

A yawancin tsakiyar karni na 19, Masarautar Dahomey ta zama babbar jiha ta yanki, bayan da ta ƙare matsayin mai ba da gudummawa ga Daular Oyo.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/abs/dahomey-and-the-slave-trade-reflections-on-the-historiography-of-the-rise-of-dahomey/A293827948246D98B83BBAA5828E740F Baƙi na Turai sun rubuta masarautar sosai, kuma ta zama ɗaya daga cikin al'ummomin Afirka da aka fi sani da Turawa. Masarautar Dahomey muhimmiyar iko ce ta yanki wacce ke da tattalin arzikin cikin gida da aka gina akan cin nasara da Aikin bawa, muhimmiyar cinikayya ta duniya da dangantakar diflomasiyya tare da Turawa, gudanarwa ta tsakiya, tsarin haraji, da kuma soja mai tsarawa.https://books.google.com/books?id=N1j1QdPMockC Shahararrun a cikin masarautar sune muhimman zane-zane, ƙungiyar soja ta mata da ake kira Dahomey Amazons ta masu lura da Turai, da kuma ayyukan addini na Vodun.https://en.unesco.org/womeninafrica/women-soldiers-dahomey/pedagogical-unit/1

Ci gaban Dahomey ya yi daidai da ci gaban Cinikin bayi na Atlantic, kuma ya zama sananne ga Turawa a matsayin babban mai ba da bayi.https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/abs/dahomey-and-the-slave-trade-reflections-on-the-historiography-of-the-rise-of-dahomey/A293827948246D98B83BBAA5828E740F Dahomey wata al'umma ce mai tsattsauran ra'ayi da aka shirya don yaƙi; ta kama fursunoni a lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe da hare-hare a kan al'ummomin makwabta kuma ta sayar da su cikin cinikin bayi na Atlantic don musayar kayayyakin Turai kamar bindigogi, gunpowder, yadudduka, harsashi, taba, bututu, da barasa. Sauran fursunoni sun zama bayi a Dahomey, inda suka yi aiki a gonakin sarauta ko kuma an kashe su a hadayar mutane a lokacin bukukuwan bikin da aka sani da Al'adun Dahomey na shekara-shekara.  Al'adun Dahomey na shekara-shekara sun haɗa da tattarawa da rarraba kyaututtuka da haraji, bukukuwan Vodun na addini, fareti na soja, da tattaunawa daga manyan mutane game da makomar masarautar.
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