Why did the Kingdom of Oyo rise?
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- Why did the Kingdom of Oyo rise?
- Geography
- located in savannah grasslands, facilitating agriculture and mobility allowing for easier farming and thus a steady growth in population
- protected from coastal raids by thick forests which stretched north of the lagoon at Lagos
- traded with trans-Saharan Arab merchants and competed with Nupe for supremacy over cloth production
- Religion
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c14 - according to myth, Oranmiyan split from his brother after the
launch of a raid on their northern neighbours and founded the kingdom
where a serpent stopped following the advice of a local chief
- claim an origin at the city of Ife-Ife as a kingdom of the Yoruba people
- leadership was conferred upon Shango after Ajaka, later defined as the deity of thunder and lighting
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c14 - according to myth, Oranmiyan split from his brother after the
launch of a raid on their northern neighbours and founded the kingdom
where a serpent stopped following the advice of a local chief
- Military
- Oranmiyan was succeeded by Ajaka but he deposed due to lacking Yoruba military virtue and allowing his sub-chiefs too much independence
- post-1535 – Oyo was restored through a re-conquest in which horses and cavalry, acquired in Borgu were applied to the reconstruction of a centralised and expansive state
- using its cavalry developed around the western fringes of the Nigerian forest belt and conquered the Egba and Egbado Yoruba
- Political
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in the capital of Oyo-Ile, the two most important structures were the
afalin and the Oja-oba
- surrounded by a tall earthen wall with 17 gates
- Oyo-Ile was divided into 11 separate quarters
- patrilineal society, individuals owed their first alliance to their father's idile
- towns consisted of clusters of large thatched family compounds
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in the capital of Oyo-Ile, the two most important structures were the
afalin and the Oja-oba
- Geography
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