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Benin Bronzes in Context
The Kingdom of Benin, a highly centralized state founded in the 13th or 14th century in southwestern Nigeria, dominated trade with Europeans on the Nigerian coast from the late 1400s until the end of the 1900s. Ruled by a divine king, or oba, the Benin Kingdom relied on specialized guilds to create the elaborate court […]
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