Until 19th century
Yorubaland, southwestern Nigeria
The Oyo Kingdom was a Yoruba polity in southwestern Nigeria. The extract records that the kingdom fell in the 1820s, after which Aro became the leading African slave-trading state. It also places Oyo within Yorubaland and identifies Yoruba cultural and political traditions associated with the region.
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The Story
Oyo is identified in the extract as a kingdom associated with Yorubaland and the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. The index places Oyo alongside Yoruba cultural references and the Oyo-Yoruba upland, indicating a political center within the southwestern upland zone.
The chronology records that the Oyo kingdom fell in the 1820s. This collapse altered the regional political and commercial balance, and the extract states that Aro then became the leading African slave-trading state.
The available passage does not describe Oyo’s foundation, rulers, administrative structure, or precise extent. The secure historical identification is therefore the kingdom’s Yoruba setting and its recorded fall during the 1820s.
Until 19th century
Yorubaland, southwestern Nigeria
The Oyo Kingdom was a Yoruba polity in southwestern Nigeria. The extract records that the kingdom fell in the 1820s, after which Aro became the leading African slave-trading state. It also places Oyo within Yorubaland and identifies Yoruba cultural and political traditions associated with the region.
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The Story
Oyo is identified in the extract as a kingdom associated with Yorubaland and the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. The index places Oyo alongside Yoruba cultural references and the Oyo-Yoruba upland, indicating a political center within the southwestern upland zone.
The chronology records that the Oyo kingdom fell in the 1820s. This collapse altered the regional political and commercial balance, and the extract states that Aro then became the leading African slave-trading state.
The available passage does not describe Oyo’s foundation, rulers, administrative structure, or precise extent. The secure historical identification is therefore the kingdom’s Yoruba setting and its recorded fall during the 1820s.
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