Benin “empire”

Well it was a city state that controlled surrounding city-states, so in the context of a city-state system it was an empire, same as the Athenian 'Empire' or Hammurabi's 'Empire'. It's usually called a kingdom though, since it was ruled by an Oba, meaning King.

Africa is a big place so in reality that empire was probably the size of Germany in land area.

how come Persians were skilled horsemen when Persia is such a mountainous country?

>Benin Empire approx. 90,000 km^2
>Germany approx. 350,000 km^2
Nice try, more like the size of modern Hungary.

It takes way more skill to be a horseman in the mountains than in the plains

Horsemen were the only way to beat or keep in check the nomads of central asia
>or it turns into another Carrhae

Something that size in Africa is like the size of fucking florida, or any number of e*ropean countries

Yeah, not to mention centuries of Parthan rule.

I regret just making this

EBIC, it is actually like that on the Bolsjewikiedia

>a big hut controls a number of smaller huts
>we wuz empires n shiet :DDDDSDD

>posting a fake map

Benin

Underrated.

That definition, while usually seen as the definition of an empire, is way too broad to only account for empire, as it would make most nation states in their early form and kingdoms empires.

>Ghana has nothing to do with the historical Kingdom of Ghana
>Mali has nothing to do with the historical Malian Empire
>Benin has nothing to do with the Benin Empire
>neither Congo has anything to do with the Kingdom of Kongo
What did Africa mean by this? It's like a whole continent of Macedonias

>"Empire" of Trebizond

Nice job :DDD

>That definition, while usually seen as the definition of an empire, is way too broad to only account for empire
That's the point. Empires weren't special at all and they were quite common in history.

>as it would make most nation states in their early form and kingdoms empires.
No fucking shit? Many """Nation-states""" nowadays used to be Empires and Kingdoms.

Hence Nationalists tend to be deluded fucks who think their nation is some sort of "we wuz one race all along" bullshit.

>All of them are former colonies
>So is Macedonia
At least I truly see.

>Getting this angry while agreeing with me
M8, do you have some issues in your life you want to talk about?

They call temselves the true heir of Byzantine no to mention their ruling dynasty is Komnenos

still a better empire than the "Holy" "Roman" """"Empire""""

funny

>they call themselves

Talk is cheap.