The political organization of the historical Asante Empire was characterized by stools which denoted "offices" that were associated with a particular authority...
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The Asante Empire (Asante Twi: Asanteman), also known as the Ashanti Empire, was an Akan state that lasted from 1701 to 1901, in what is now modern-day...
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The Asante Empire was governed by an elected monarch with its political power centralised. The entire government was a federation. By the 19th century...
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The military of the Asante Empire first came into formation around the 17th century AD in response to subjugation by the Denkyira Kingdom. It served as...
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languages. Asante political power combines Asantehene Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II as the political head of the Asantes and the Ashanti Region, with Asante semi-one-party...
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The Economy of the Asante Empire was largely a pre-industrial and agrarian economy. The Asante established different procedures for mobilizing state revenue...
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were built by the Asante Empire to connect the capital with cities north and south of the empire starting from the 18th century. Asante roads were supervised...
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Yaa Asantewaa (redirect from Yaa Asantewa of Asante)
people during a time of uncertainty. Nana Yaa Asantewaa's call to the women of the Asante Empire is rooted in the political obligations of Akan women and their...
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Asante, also known as Ashanti, Ashante, or Asante Twi, is one of the principal dialects of the Akan language. It is one of the three literary dialects...
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Asantehemaa (section List of Asantehemaa)
The Asantehemaa is the queen mother according to West African custom, who rules the Asante people alongside the Asantehene. African queen mothers generally...
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([tɕᶣi]) is the common name of the Akan literary dialects of Asante and Akuapem. Effectively, it is a synonym for 'Akan' that is not used by the Fante people...
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PMID 11614369. S2CID 19587869. Edgerton, Robert B. (2010). The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa's Gold Coast. Simon and Schuster...
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Gold Coast (British colony) (redirect from Colony of the Gold Coast)
laid the foundations of British rule and the eventual establishment of a colony on the Gold Coast: British reaction to the Asante wars and the resulting...
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peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) exercises political control over the peripheries. Within an empire, different...
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Africa (redirect from Politics of Africa)
East, and Southern Africa. Some African empires include Wagadu, Mali, Songhai, Sokoto, Ife, Benin, Asante, the Fatimids, Almoravids, Almohads, Ayyubids...
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Akan people (redirect from History of the Akan people)
heads of the constituent states who equates an Emperor that only heads an Empire (e.g., Asante Empire and the Denkyira). In Asante's case, as an Empire, the...
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numbering about 3.5 million half the population of Asante moved and settled with the Anyi, Nzema and the Sanhwi to the west of Asante. Nana Opoku Ware was entooled...
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The Political history of Ghana recounts the history of varying political systems that existed in Ghana during pre-colonial times, the colonial era and...
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Kumasi (category Ashanti Empire)
Kumasi are the Asante, Mole-Dagbon and Ewe.: 5 The current mayor of the metropolitan is Samuel Pyne. The city was the capital of the Asante Empire, which...
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The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa's Gold Coast. ISBN 9781451603736. Fred M. Agyemang (1993). Accused in the Gold Coast. Waterville...
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Prempeh I (category People from the Ashanti Empire)
in the annexation of Ashanti to the British Empire, but preserved the sanctity of the Golden Stool. The British exiled Asantewaa and other Asante leaders...
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Anglo-Ashanti wars (redirect from Anglo-Asante War)
Herald. Vol. VIII, no. 2195. p. 2. Edgerton, Robert B. (2010). The Fall of the Asante Empire: The Hundred-Year War For Africa's Gold Coast. Simon and Schuster...
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Confederacy Asante Union Ayyubid Sultanate Bamana Empire Benin Empire Bornu Empire Ethiopian Empire Fatimid Caliphate Ghana Empire Kaabu Empire Kanem Empire Kong...
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known as the Kingdom of Axum, or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in East Africa and South Arabia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, based in...
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Caracalla (category People of the Roman–Parthian Wars)
as being contradictory to the representation made by Gibbon of cruelty and destruction. The history professors Molefi Asante and Shaza Ismail note that...
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Adinkra symbols (category Culture of Ghana)
stools etc. by the people of Gyaman people. Adinkra cloth was worn by the king of Gyaman, and its usage spread from Gyaman to Asante and other Akan kingdoms...
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Opoku Ware I (section Political development)
(1989), p. 127–8 Ivor Wilks (1989). Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521379946...
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Thomas Birch Freeman (section Gold Coast and Asante)
had political or commercial interests in Asante. The Asante king rejected his request. He nonetheless forged an encouraging relationship with Asante monarch...
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West Africa (redirect from Bulge of Africa)
"The archaeology of West Africa, ca. 800 BCE to 1500 CE." History Compass 14.6 (2016): 247–263. Edgerton, Robert B. The Fall of the Asante Empire: The...
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rise) in reference to the Porcupine's quills as symbols of Ashanti warriors, is still quoted. Political systems of the Ashanti Empire "Ashanti Gold Weights"...
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