Ashanti: Empire of Guns & Gold - African Empires Ep. 4
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- The Ashanti (Asante) empire is one of the most prosperous empires in Sub-Saharan history. Its history is one of war, peace, technology, and trade. Personally I loved researching this episode.
Sources:
McCaskie, T. C. “Denkyira in the Making of Asante c. 1660-1720.” The Journal of African History, vol. 48, no. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 1-25, www.jstor.org/stable/4501014
westindiacommittee.org/histor...
www.culturesofwestafrica.com/...
(there are more sources linked here: www.ascleiden.nl/content/webd...)
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You actually pronounced it well, Asante! Ashanti is the English corruption of the word Asante. Asante simply means, because of war.
Great video. I'll be doing a video on the Ashanti for patrons soon as well. Minor error btw is when you said "Osei Tutu sits on The Golden Stool." Nobody is allowed to sit on the golden stool, not even the Asantehene. It is too holy of an object for any man to sit upon. It can't even touch the ground either. It must always be carried or placed on another stool, chair, or table.
Very interesting! I had no idea about the last part.
Learn more then.....
@@agyemangmanukatakyiekoforo8643 No need to be rude about it. Mistakes happen.
@@agyemangmanukatakyiekoforo8643we are all learning more. Can you recommended good ressources for people who dont get the chance to learn from someone in person ?
Jamaicans it is said are mainly Ashanti 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲
Not really but close enough
Brother, thank you for this unbiased educational video! We need more people like you on significant media networks to show this to the world. Much love to you
Thank you for your videos. I really enjoy the knowledge 🙋🏾♀️🙏🏾
Great video! I love your art and animation in it
New video and such an interesting subject. African history (both North and sub-Saharan) has just always fascinated me; plus, I really have to give you credit for your graphics/animations! Keep up the awesome work man.
i agree fully
Glad it’s finally out!
Great video content... Well done💌💙
Good video. I remember hearing about the golden stool, nice to hear about the context of it.
nice to see you back, it's so sad that this channel is underrated
It definitely was worth the wait though...really interesting video!
Great video man
Good job man. Great video and I love the animations. And is that a Xalam playing for the background music?
The Ashanti took the Golden Stool from Ntim Gyakere(the King Denkyira) during the battle of Feyiase of which the Asantes won.Therefore the original and current stool was from Denkyira.
Great commentary. An interesting addendum would have been the shocking speech made by the British governor on the eve of the War of the Golden Stool. To a stunned crowd, he demanded that the stool be brought to him so that he could be seated on it. Casus belli.....
People in the From Nothing server are going to be very happy about this.
I like 👍 I wish it will never end
YEAAAHHHHH I LOVE THE ASHANTI EMPIRE
Just watched the video on swahili city states and then moved to this video. Only then I realized how mismatched the relation between the quality of your videos is compared to your number of subscribers.
Looking forward to watch your other videos and watch your channel and community grow. You make amazing content about topics with way too less publicity.
Keep it up
i like how your the first to show the two distintive migration routes however saying the asante was well equipped would be misleading by the time of the last war britain had done a blockade on gunpowder , guns , and all military essentials , the asante was left to using stones and sharp objects as pellats of big outdated slow to reload guns however maybe a couple hundreds had modern riffles compared to british rocket launchers canoons machine guns as wells as using biological warefare through disease
I have to say, I really like your choice of topics. I find the Ashanti Kingdom very interesting.
Plus, unlike with Poland, I'm definitely not an expert, so I won't be nitpicking this time. ;-)
i agree
How about the Livonian Brothers of the Sword / Livonian Order; no reason for that question. 😅
@@GhostCountries Oh yes, that's a good one too. 👍
@@GhostCountries hey buddy
@@micahistory Hey man!
A brave people!
Based
Asante y3 oman
Angry gets shyt done.
“So they did the most British thing and took everything they can then burnt the rest”😂😂😂
Great video mate, loved that you spoke in detail about the Asante Empires economic and political organization prior to the Anglo-Ashanti wars, as it seems like history usually just focus’s on the latter.
What’s the name of the music in the background?
Is a highlife tune. These type of tunes is typical for the Akans of which the Asante people were a part of.
You can find more of it here on CZcams
@@okaydaf5205 Do you know the specific name?
Ashantis was existir more Than 1000 years ago,
Before the Arabs came to figth Europe And conquer Spain Sevilla we know this push the Ashantis to Mali there is were we wont to hear , when the Ashantis deal With Gold And also rules the world to India the known world that time, The Ghana Empire that Akan which means the First creaters,
stop the cap
@@patriciaadansiSome came from the far east after invasion by the Romans, Greeks, Assyrians, most Africans in Egypt moved to Makuria Kingdom in Sudan. They faced opposition from other great Kingdom after the fall of Kemet to the Arabs mainly the Turkish/Persians/Syrians.
There emerged another great Kingdom know as Aksum which stretched from Morden day Eritrea, djibouti, Eastern part of Sudan, Northern part of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and most part of Yemen. Those who fled the Arab trecious invasions move down to another established Kingdom called Gao/Kawkaw near mali/Niger area. The exedus still continue down the coastal forest in present day Ghana, Burkina and Togo for the Akans from the east route... The earlier Arab writers recount such history in university of Mali among the very first in the world. The Akans have been in Ghana a little more than 1,000 from the west side of old songhai empire.
Akyim is mentioned Achim
Connect with a native for facts and to better articulate. It's dangerous to present a subject of history when you know very little. It could lead to a misrepresentation that distorts history
Why do most of the ancient pharaonic names bear
remarkable semblance to names of kings of
Akan royals in Ghana, West Africa? I taught ancient egyptian were magical flying White Greeks who came into africa (egypt) to build pyramids rather than building them in their own land (weirdly there is no pyramids in arabia or Greece, but in Nubia(Sudan there is 255 pyramids which is more than the 118 pyramids in Egypt). Hmm something is fishy 🤔
1.Pharaoh Khufu =Akuffu or Kufuor (both
presidents of Ghana from the Akan tribe)
2. Pharaoh Tutankhamun= Tutu Ankamah
(royal Akan name) ( as in Osei Tutu)
3. Pharaoh Akhenaten = Akhenten (royal Akan
name) (as in Oti Akhenten)
4. Ankh Ra= Ankhra (Ankra) (typical Akan
name as in Twumasi Ankra)
The list is endless.
Ancestors of the Akans say they migrated from Egypt
to present day Ghana through Timbuktu. their
kings have been saying this since time
immemorial.
Sankhara(Mentuhotep III ) looks like Thomas Sanakra Name who was a African.
The Ashanti came from cannan , and settled in Egypt then moved down the Sahara to avoid Muslim invasions. Our customs are very similar in what is described in the Old Testament. We have one Saturday God, we call Nyame and other deities. Read the book from cannan to modern Ghana
Why do you feel like you have to be associated with hebrews?
Hebrew is black and Torah description depicts AKANS in west Africa specifically,GHANA 🇬🇭.
That's why your ancestors put us into slavery because they know who and what we are.
Mind you, ASANTE FOUGHT BRITISH ALMOST A 100YRS yet still our great culture is still preserve till date.
@@showa546 cos is history told in Akan culture.
@@ghana-music I guess the reason why you spread such nonsense is because you're so obsessed with christianity. Otherwise you wouldn't have such a claim.
Why are you telling a history that you are not native to, in this case how can we trust you on this?
My sources are in the description, and you are welcome to do your own research if you don't find mine satisfactory.
@@ChronologyCast don't mind him, he is from other tribes in Ghana whom were defeated by the asantes
@@oscarasiedu3799 😂
@@oscarasiedu3799 😂💔
Kingdom, state and empire needs to be used more properly. I notice people tend to use these term very uncritically
In the case of Ashanti, it was an Empire.
How? Where was it used wrong in this video?
It took the British 100 years so subdued Ashants
It took then another 100 years before they can set their feet in Kumasi, which was the ASHANTI ancient capital
It wasn’t 70 years