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

We're in Benin bu you are in de nile

bad joke is bad but true

what year is that @DoobyCooby

the fact of the matter still remains that benin was never under "arabic rule"

Probably around the late 1700s or early 1800s

but yes mr e's thing still does not stand since it seems arabs were never down that area

benin would only later get eaten in 1897

by the uk

later 1700s or early 1800s