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Children didn’t go to school but learned storytellers who kept the kingdoms history and mythology alive

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Children did not go to school but learned from storytellers who kept the kingdoms history and mythology alive.

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1. The second Ogiso used to wear a crown of cowrie shells, this made them very valuable.

2. Trade was very important for the Benin kingdom.

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There were guilds- even one for drummers

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They traded for stuff there was local markets weekly they were swapping in later years they payed the rainforest is good for spices and elephants ivory

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Every family had its own home with a little garden

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Trade was an important part of life in Benin and made the kingdom the powerful dynasty it became in later years.

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The children didn’t go to school yet they got taught by story tellers about the history

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If someone stole they will have to apologise and pay.💰

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The rainforest would have been rich in such as spices and elephant ivory items which would have been much sort after,commodities.

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Life in the Benin kingdom was interesting. Children didn’t go to school and they learnt stuff from there parents,grandparents or just old people in general.

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Trade helped the kingdom become powerful

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Trading was a important part of everyday

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People payed in shells and traded shells 🐚

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Children did not go to school

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Across the city were 40 guilds: doctors,drummers,acrobats and dancer and more!

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Children didn’t go to school and they got taught by kingdom history and parents

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They used traditional stories to learn their culture and they can pass it on to their relatives 😃

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The Ogiso ruled Benin’s trade deciding what should be traded and demanding the profits for themselves 

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The Ogiso ruled Benin’s trade deciding what should be traded and demanding the profits for themselves 

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BELLA

The kingdom of Benin 🇧🇯 began in the 900s when the Edo people settled in the rainforest of west Africa

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Trade was an important part of everyday life in Benin 🇧🇯 and made the kingdom powerful dynasty it became in later years children often learned skills from members of their family and trades passed down farther to son

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Trading was important for food

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Cradles an important part of life in Ben and made the kingdom the powerful the nasty in late years local marketers were held weekly in the forest to start with traders and their customers would barter swapping goods rather than paying for them later on traders accepted shells as as a form of paying Due to a story that tells the second ogiso what a crown of shells we believe that the shells were highly valued.

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When they traded they had to give some of there money that they earned to the king that is called Ogiso

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Skills were passed from father 👨 to son 👦 and mother 👩 and daughter 👧

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The kingdom of Benin 🇧🇯 began in the 900s when the Edo people settled in the rainforest of west Africa

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The kingdom was called igodomigodo it was ruled by Sires of kings known as Ogisas which means rulers of sky

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Each family had its own home with space, a bit like a garden. The house would have been built from materials found in the rainforest-wood, leaves and other natural materials. Families also had a plot of land that they farmed, growing crops and raising animals for meats.

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at first they lived in a small family but then more people came to that particular family group and it developed in to a kingdom and the there became 1 ruler named Ogiso that named the kingdom the Benin Kingdom. The Benin Kingdom began in the 900s and in the rainforest of west Africa. 👍

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The rain forests would be good in rich good as in spices

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There are 40 guilds of acrobats dancers medics

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Children learned from story tellers.

Trending would stop with anyone if thieves stole goods.

The had to pay, give the thing back and say sorry.