Dahomeys

The Dahomeys are one of the tribes mentioned in The People's Republic of Benin by Loel Caley.

Trivia

 * The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a pre-colonial African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. The Kingdom fell when the last king, Béhanzin, was defeated by the France, which led to the country being annexed into the French colonial empire. Dahomey developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by conquering key cities on the Atlantic coast.
 * Notable in the kingdom were significant artwork, an all-female military unit called the Dahomey Amazons by European observers, and the elaborate religious practices of Voodoo with the large festival of the Annual Customs of Dahomey which involved large scale human sacrifice. They traded prisoners, which they captured during wars and raids, and exchanged them with Europeans for goods such as knives, bayonets, firearms, fabrics, and spirits.