Hi, I just joined as the Benin Empire, so as of the beginning of the 1900’s, what happened to them?
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British had been trying to force the king to stop the practice of human sacrificial crucifixion, and selling slaves to Arab traders who had replaced the Portuguese after 1836. A punitive expedition was launched in 1897.
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But won’t Benin be at least decently advanced by then (then again, didn’t save India)? By 1500 alone they had 50 million people, so they would likely have in the hundreds of millions by then. Besides, they believe in technology in their religion of Kuzurism.
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Yep.
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so how did the UK colonise them in this reality? id expect them to resist the British and possibly be a developed nation by the 2000's
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The British poisoning thire food?
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How do the British take control like that? The British IOTL never did that.
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Eseseso, Benin slowly declined according to game Canon, first splitting into two states with Mali restored, than Mali got wrecked by morroco, and benin collapsed into many states afterwards. Then divide and conquer. Kuzirism mixed with islam and the waters mudied.
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got it, thanks
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OK, I thought he ment OTL Benin. Thanks.
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OK.
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