Message from @Yunus

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2019-06-16 00:17:37 UTC  

like hes not abusing his power

2019-06-16 00:17:44 UTC  

to do evil things

2019-06-16 00:17:49 UTC  

You know what I find funny

2019-06-16 00:17:53 UTC  

tell me

2019-06-16 00:17:56 UTC  

we blame God for all the bad shit in the world

2019-06-16 00:17:59 UTC  

and all the good things

2019-06-16 00:18:08 UTC  

yet we don't realize that humans are the ones behind it

2019-06-16 00:18:15 UTC  

*We* commit evil

2019-06-16 00:18:20 UTC  

not God or Allah

2019-06-16 00:18:30 UTC  

And exactly this artificiality makes it so appealing, IMO

2019-06-16 00:18:47 UTC  

well you know for example in the quran it tells us that the world is literally a test

2019-06-16 00:19:04 UTC  

And I think it's something that people need to learn, stop blaming the devil for your problems and fix them

2019-06-16 00:19:09 UTC  

if you act like shit your afterlife will be shit

2019-06-16 00:19:23 UTC  

if you act good and kind after life will be good

2019-06-16 00:21:13 UTC  

blaming the devil is dumb at the end of the day you make your own choices

2019-06-16 00:21:24 UTC  

Alrighty, Well let’s start with the Oyo, The Oyo empire was a Yoruba Empire that was founded in the 1300s and lasted until the 1890s during the scramble for africa
During their time as an empire they were mainly known for their Cavalry which was very effective in battles. The Oyo had a period of expansion in which they fought also fought a war against the Benin Empire, another famous west African empire in 1578, which they failed in that war
The Oyo’s capital which was Ile Ife was known for having Terracota sculpted heads which had been admired for their realism. The Oyo government was run by a checks and balance kind of thing. There’d be the Prime Minister (Basharoun) who acts as a diplomat and keeps the power of the king in check, for if the King tries to take all the power, He will be beheaded.
The Oyo ruled over an Area in which they gained through expansion which will later become the Dahomey kingdom
After a while(around the 1700s) the Oyo were defeated by the Nupe people, who were doing their little Jihad thing, to which the Oyo empire fell, but then Revived once again and survived until the scramble for africa @Yunus

2019-06-16 00:21:27 UTC  

satanists make the choice to worship satan

2019-06-16 00:22:16 UTC  

Also the Oyo were one of the many West African states to have firearms in their army

2019-06-16 00:22:54 UTC  

1300s to the 1890s thats a long time

2019-06-16 00:22:59 UTC  

Yeah

2019-06-16 00:23:25 UTC  

what were their leaders called just leaders? or like kings, padisahs

2019-06-16 00:23:26 UTC  

West African Kingdoms usually survived for long times
Like Benin which lasted from 1180 to 1897

2019-06-16 00:23:52 UTC  

also what about their architecture

2019-06-16 00:23:58 UTC  

got any pictures

2019-06-16 00:24:30 UTC  

I’ll get some pics

2019-06-16 00:30:33 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553746184150319175/589612747231068161/image1.jpg

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553746184150319175/589612747231068165/image0.jpg

2019-06-16 00:31:13 UTC  

interesting

2019-06-16 00:31:29 UTC  

i wonder what the inside of that looked like

2019-06-16 00:31:33 UTC  

Kings were called Alaafins and Prime minister like people were called Basharouns

2019-06-16 00:32:02 UTC  

what did they believe in

2019-06-16 00:32:26 UTC  

Traditional Religions, their religion was called Ifa

2019-06-16 00:32:57 UTC  

Which is a divinitation religion in which you try to find and rediscover your destiny

2019-06-16 00:33:41 UTC  

im gonna look it up

2019-06-16 00:33:47 UTC  

Here is a picture of the king’s palace in 1890

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553746184150319175/589613562125615105/image0.jpg

2019-06-16 00:36:52 UTC  

Also a map of Oyo and surrounding kingdoms

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/553746184150319175/589614337874722827/image0.jpg

2019-06-16 00:39:48 UTC  

was that like the most successful african empire or why did you choose to look more into it

2019-06-16 00:42:25 UTC  

There were a lot of Successful African empires like the Ashanti, Benin, Kongo, Great Zimbabwe/Mutapa, When I talk about African history I tend to talk about the Non Islamic ones

2019-06-16 00:42:53 UTC  

but w h y

2019-06-16 00:43:07 UTC  

but why what

2019-06-16 00:43:31 UTC  

why not the islamic ones <:RageWojak:552581416022704132>

2019-06-16 00:46:21 UTC  

Because everyone knows about them and has this belief that Arabs civilized them and blah blah blah
Even though the Islamic ones are just as interesting I believe that if I talk about the non islamic ones, the ones that didn’t really have relations with other races, it’d be more interesting since people just can’t say “Arabs/euros civilized dem!” out of nowhere lol