Was This West Africa’s First Metropolis?

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you are one of probably about 3 KZbin Channels who produce fascinating, academic level content about these subjects. i hope you know i appreciate your content a lot

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@@Amoury_Abdo that is how replies work, yes

[@alvanalvino]

Benin city Nigeria was the biggest city in Africa in the 1400s. It’s emperor had over 1 million men at arms of he called his banners to assemble. Also his city had over 200 towns fenced inside the walled city with districts. It was an industrialised city of that era. Unfortunately the British burnt it down.

[@easterworshipper730]

That smells like bull shit.

[@Ramiiam]

There was a lot of urbanization happening in West Africa about a thousand years ago: The towns of Northern Nigeria, Niger valley settlements like Jenne Jeno, Gao, a bit later Timbuktu, desert edge trading settlements like Awdaghust and the Ghana capital in Mauritania.

[@GrinningDentist]

1 million???

[@alvanalvino]

@@GrinningDentist Yes over that comfortably if all men of military age across the entire empire are assembled in one location when the king the Oba gives the command. Sometimes his mother the queen mother commands her own army and one queen would have about 250 different military campaigns in her like time. Besides (possibly) Alexander the Great and General Boliva who the nation of Bolivia was named after no human in recorded history has had over 100 mill Italy campaigns in one life time.

[@alvanalvino]

@@Ramiiam Very very true. In the case of BenIn it’s current king is about the number 35 in a long line. Second dynasty. Their empire is old. Over 2500 years of one family ruling. Benin city is older than Jesus Christ. Over 1500 years ago they were remodelling their city. That’s how old they were. So which other city anywhere on the continent of Africa can compete with that as a continuous capital city. That was my point. Over 250 villages of the same people united by military conquest at the foundation of the empire. All of them sending representatives to the eternal city as it grew.

[@motorolasamurai1635]

Sungbo's Eredo was no doubt the most impressive West African city, in terms of sheer scale and defensibility.

[@alvanalvino]

BenIn city was never conquered until the Europeans brought modern technology.

[@thevisitor1012]

I wish these ancient west African civilizations made more effort towards recording their own history, as relying on foreign accounts has it's limits.

[@beingheardmedia6339]

I have no evidence for this at all BUT - I suspect the info is out there and either still undiscovered or being withheld.

[@thevisitor1012]

@@beingheardmedia6339 I agree with you. This will only end once Africans decide to launch their own archeological investigations.

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They didnt know how to write.

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They did. We do not know what they oldest Malian manuscript is

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​@easter worshipper A lot of that writing was destroyed

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Mali had the world’s second oldest ceramic pottery.

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[@admirekashiri9879]

Interesting, I assumed the cities of Dhar Tichitt and Walata were the first ones, but I'm guessing they didn't fit the definition you highlighted, is that correct?

[@jonothandoeser]

Cities but not Metropoli

[@adamajobe1756]

Yeah, prolly because it wasn't a huge hub for outsiders. Other than that it checks the other boxes

[@admirekashiri9879]

@@jonothandoeser alright, I see.

[@admirekashiri9879]

@adamajobe1756 fair enough I assumed there were outsiders coming through, but I guess not in significant numbers

[@adamajobe1756]

@@admirekashiri9879 I need to reread the research. If I'm not mistaken they were trading, but it was with neighboring ethnic groups. Maybe home team might have been referring to outside the "country" or continent or culture?

[@JL-ti3us]

I remember reading some statistic on my west african history course in varsity that areas of what is now Nigeria had three times the population density of medieval europe, prior to the black death.

[@o-wolf]

Yeh Nigeria werent paying around back then.. especially technologically.. one of the worlds largest moats exists there.. but they'd tend to have very little contact with outsiders untill.. well you know .

[@Afri_Culture]

we need more information about Walata the city that led to Ghana that probably suffered from the desertification of the sahara and caused west africans to move south and create Ghana

[@Ramiiam]

Dhar Tichitt in Mauritania is an older settlement. People raised bullrush millet and built in stone and clay. I don't know about the cosmopolitan character, but these desert-edge settlements were meeting-places for farmers and herders.

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Just can't help but wish this particular pre-video plug wasn't there but I get it lol

[@beingheardmedia6339]

Thank you! Always fascinating info. Sorry for the stupid question: but when you say Sudan, I'm confused. I thought Sudan was only in the Northeast, south of Egypt. Do you also consider it to extend westward to Ghana? Honestly asking because I don't know. Side note: You have the BEST MUSICAL THEME EVAH!!!!🥰

[@thevisitor1012]

The Arabs considered West Africa to be "the Sudan" as well.

[@NonameWriter]

I believe “Sudan” in Arabic is part of a phrase which means something like “land of the Blacks”, which Arabs used to refer to West Africa, south of the Sahel.

[@ZuriArtia]

Tichitt Dhar was an agrarian society founded in 2500 BCE and drystone structures were built around 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE. It would also later become one the cities of the Ghana (real African name, Wagadu) Empire from 300 CE to 1250 CE.

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Excellent Episode 👍

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Please look into the Noc civilization! Is is an extraordinary civilization that has distinct characteristics, as well as the unprecedented reputation of being one of the very few (perhaps ONLY) civilizations that went straight from stone tools to IRON tools; completely skipping the copper and bronze age! I just learned about it, but think it would be an excellent topic for your channel!

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they 'skipped' the copper and bronze ages because they were still in the stone age the whole time.

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@@ario2264 … yet they were, at this time, the earliest civilization to forge and use iron tools, implements, and created unique iron sculptures. That doesn’t sound Stone Age to me, but I may be wrong.

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@@Itsfineweerallfine They weren't the first to forge and use iron tools and they didn't make iron sculptures.

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@@ario2264 yeah they were, and yeah, they did. Look it up.

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Africa did everything first. So it shall be again once we rise and start creating new thing and giving birth to new ideas!

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Like a medieval Manhatten.

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Why do so many sites discussing Benin show illustrations of Medieval Lisbon Portugal???? A British retaliatory battalion of a couple hundred men both White and Black defeated and destroyed Benin City within 48 hours! And took the brass plaques casting techniques learned from the Indo-Islamic brass and copper trade routes as war booty... Thousands of years ago it was just clay sculptures.

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What’s the intro song with the drums

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What’s that place/ruin when the video starts?

[@kafenwar]

I thought Dar El Tichitt was West Africa's first, and that was a couple centuries Before the Common Era.

[@malcolmking5023]

What about TCHITT WALATA???????? WAKE UP

[@keithmburu8269]

what about East Africa

[@thevisitor1012]

He's done videos, but he mostly focuses on West and central africa.

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Kilwa sultanate waa founded by Persians, it was a diverse empire.

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@ Cyrus the great, Kilwa was Muslim but it was not built and founded by Persians. Research from even the eurocentric, Muslim, and Persian scholars has debunked that.

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@@thevisitor1012 not central. you probably a westerner

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​@@cyrusthegreat7030no,al shirazi was a swahili man who was adopted in persian dynasty.kilwa was not the first swahili city.

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