https://padlet.com/saranj/hdk5tjdqeb4k3skx en-us 2023-01-16 02:49:11 UTC 2024-10-31 14:24:15 UTC hello@padlet.com saranj https://padlet.com/saranj/hdk5tjdqeb4k3skx/wish/2445130463 The Dahomey Amazons was an all female military formed when the male casualties increased in warfare with neighbouring west african states. As a result, Dahomey became one of the major slaves in the Oyo Empire's slave trade, which used slaves as a form of currency for goods in West Africa until the British Empire put an end to the slave trades.]]> 2023-01-16 03:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/saranj/hdk5tjdqeb4k3skx/wish/2445130463 saranj https://padlet.com/saranj/hdk5tjdqeb4k3skx/wish/2445140542 Historians say the Dahomey Amazons formed when Queen Hangbe and her twin brother had a lot of female bodyguards in the early 1700s and by the mid-1800s Dahomey formed the Dahomey Amazons to outmuscle rival kingdoms. You might ask "why didn't they just use men for outmuscling rival kingdoms?" well that's because there was a lack of men and the men were fighting other west African countries and there were a lot of casualties so there weren't enough men to take out rival kingdoms and fight the other countries at once.]]> 2023-01-16 03:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/saranj/hdk5tjdqeb4k3skx/wish/2445140542