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Rare card · History
Dahomey, a Rare card
The Kingdom of Dahomey was a West African kingdom located within the present-day Republic of Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Ranked #1,176 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Dahomey quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dahomey card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire, Dahomey became a key regional state for much of the ______ 19th century.
Answer
middle. Ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire, Dahomey became a key regional state for much of the middle 19th century. From the Dahomey article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2018 United States House of Representatives elections. 2018 United States House of Representatives elections 100 · Indian independence movement 91 · Stanley Baldwin 86 · Dahomey 82 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It developed on the Abomey Plateau among the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic coast, which granted it unhindered access to the Atlantic Slave Trade.
- Ending tributary status to the Oyo Empire, Dahomey became a key regional state for much of the middle 19th century.
- European visitors extensively documented the kingdom, and it became one of the most familiar African nations known to Europeans.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dahomey article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Dahomey
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dahomey (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Samhanin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
