Oba Ewuare and the rise of Benin
Ewuare the Great builds a kingdom famed for its bronzes
Oba Ewuare the Great made Benin a powerful state and surrounded its capital with vast moats and earthworks. Benin's craftsmen became famous for bronze plaques and sculptures, looted by the British in 1897.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 11 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 10 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 13 years later
Asia
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 6 years later
Americas
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — 2 years earlier
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — 10 years later
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — 10 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 40)
- Mehmed II (aged 8)
- Sejong the Great (aged 43)
- Charles VII (aged 37)
- Murad II (aged 36)
- Pachacuti (aged 22)
- Louis XI (aged 17)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 4)
- Ivan III (aged 0)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 46)