ive been binging stellaris for the past few months

Stellaris is my shit

Benin was influenced by semites

no

tf

The Kingdom of Benin was founded in 1180

well

not by semites

paradox games are loved for poltical masterbation and how easily moddable.

And yeah, seems a bit of a stretch on semite claim.

but benin was one of the first african kingdoms to trade with europeans

Thier Capital was ofc, Benin City

sub-saharan that is

And they made pretty cool bronze plauques

they had a cool flag

Like this one of a soldier handling a leopard

is their flag the one where its decapitation

yeah

since iirc one african empire had that

yes

based flag tbh

Honestly, I hate the way Sub-Saharan art looks. I'm not calling Sub-Saharans inferior or anything. But the sculptures just make me want more

Many of those ancient structures were built by blacks under Arabic rule. Arabs were in sub-Saharan Africa long before whites.

Benin never had any contact with arabs

Really?

Yeah really

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin

yeah they are right

thats its location btw

no relation to modern benin

but i am not finding anything arab related

only contact with the portugese

Yeah, me neither

since portugese were one of the first Euros to travel around

and ~~colonize~~ talk to people

what period is what you're posting from?

1180

roughly when it was formed

its an old ass kingdom

that was when it was formed

not when these things were made