Describe two examples of African states that were able to grow and prosper without relying on the increasing slave trade. How did they secure their prosperity?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Examples of African states
1. Dahomey
a. did not depend on slaving, which accounted for perhaps 2.5
percent of its economy
1. productive territory in an area of varied commerce
b. prized captives more as potential human sacrifices than as slaves
c. lived by war and subordinated other values to ferocious warrior cult
d. rose and fell with the rhythms of the slave trade
e. began to accumulate muskets in exchange for slaves it obtained
by raiding
2. Ashanti
a. shows that state-building on an even greater scale was possible
with resources other than slaves
b. gold was the basis of Ashanti's rise
c. used firepower to defeat mounted armies from the Sahel
d. increasingly relied on slaving to supplement its gold during the
eighteenth century
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