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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by banmee(m): 9:10pm On Jul 16, 2017
The wall of china is the largest man made wall lengthwise. Not the wall of benin.
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by 4FACEADELEKE(m): 9:10pm On Jul 16, 2017
KingOvoramwen1:
[[s]quote author=4FACEADELEKE post=58524881]I know Oyo empire Sudanese empire and others but Benin.hahahahha.Benin compared to the Yoruba's and other great empires of Africa were not sophisticated.After all their first king and royal blood came from a Yoruba king loins.King Eweka 1.If NA lie Google it.[/s]

You are just a waste of space!!

I know but you are also a waste of clay and oxygen.
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by tivta(m): 9:11pm On Jul 16, 2017
There is only one great wall. The great Wall of China. It can be seen from the moon. Explorer please teach these people about history...
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by ExpensiveG: 9:13pm On Jul 16, 2017
seguno2:


After all your fine patriotic comment, why you come carry oyinbo picture put inside?
Confusion?


No vex.... grin

Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by banmee(m): 9:15pm On Jul 16, 2017
EdoNation:


Abi oo Respect to all our ancestors who participated !! smiley

Read some of the fact about the wall. They are wrong. What the op is saying is that the wall of benin is longer than the wall of china. That is just not possible.
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Ayopedro(m): 9:19pm On Jul 16, 2017
Can't be as long as great Wall of China
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by mysticwarrior(m): 9:32pm On Jul 16, 2017
KingOvoramwen1:
Depictive Imagery
how is the Benin wall longer than the great wall of china? pls don't insult antiquity, the Benin wall is made of red clay and the great wall of China is made of bricks and stones, it is far much longer than the Benin wall, the great wall of China was built in 206 BC and stretches for 13,171miles and everyone knows that the entire Edo State is not up to 4000miles. The great wall of China is the only man made structure that is visibly seen outside the earth surface. the wall of Benin is no match in comparison with the great wall of China.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Nedsnow(m): 9:45pm On Jul 16, 2017
Ah ah. This Benin people can lie en!
I don't think you guys know what 16,000 kilometers is sha. Measure Nigeria from the north to the south and from the west to the east. It's not even up to your made up number. Morealso, you guys said it's 4 times the wall of China. Ah ahhhh! Fear God now. Is the wall underground or is it spiritual as always? You may want to say "blah blah blah Benin empire almost covered the whole Africa." Fùck that!!!

No matter how ruined the wall has become, even if it has been ruined for 100 years, there will still be paths and evidences of it's existence. Kindly come and show us Biko.
Una too dey lie abeg.

If the so claimed Benin Empire was so great. How come you guys are so little now en?
You guys claimed to once be an empire but you currently only occupy one small state that is a little bit bigger than Ibadan. Where did the empire go? Or were you guys divided like a cake?

You also always claim Yoruba was under your empire before. Let's do the math pls. How come Yoruba has 6 and a half states and you guys can only boast of one?
We ve heard it a million times that you once conquered lagos blah blah blah but what happened? Awwww! Now i know. You guys lost the precious Lagos right? But come to think of it. How?

Lastly. If you guys were that progressive during your Benin Empire Bullshít era. Why are your towns and even your cities still acient? Still stuck to the old ways and stuff.
Don't get fussy about this. Answer the questions or else no assholé should quote me.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by misano(m): 10:00pm On Jul 16, 2017
I think OP didn't do his research well. Benin has ramparts & moat. The ramparts are like walls at the side of D moat.

The moat was considered the largest man-made structure lengthwise and was hailed as the largest earthwork in the world.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by oldfoolnigger(m): 10:03pm On Jul 16, 2017
it will not be well with Britain.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by KingOvoramwen1(m): 10:04pm On Jul 16, 2017
[[s]quote author=Nedsnow post=58526930]Ah ah. This Benin people can lie en!
I don't think you guys know what 16,000 kilometers is sha. Measure Nigeria from the north to the south and from the west to the east. It's not even up to your made up number. Morealso, you guys said it's 4 times the wall of China. Ah ahhhh! Fear God now. Is the wall underground or is it spiritual as always? You may want to say "blah blah blah Benin empire almost covered the whole Africa." Fùck that!!!

No matter how ruined the wall has become, even if it has been ruined for 100 years, there will still be paths and evidences of it's existence. Kindly come and show us Biko.
Una too dey lie abeg.

If the so claimed Benin Empire was so great. How come you guys are so little now en?
You guys claimed to once be an empire but you currently only occupy one small state that is a little bit bigger than Ibadan. Where did the empire go? Or were you guys divided like a cake?

You also always claim Yoruba was under your empire before. Let's do the math pls. How come Yoruba has 6 and a half states and you guys can only boast of one?
We ve heard it a million times that you once conquered lagos blah blah blah but what happened? Awwww! Now i know. You guys lost the precious Lagos right? But come to think of it. How?

Lastly. If you guys were that progressive during your Benin Empire Bullshít era. Why are your towns and even your cities still acient? Still stuck to the old ways and stuff.
Don't get fussy about this. Answer the questions or else no assholé should quote me. [/quote][/s]


WTF did this one even write ? grin grin grin
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by misano(m): 10:08pm On Jul 16, 2017
Nedsnow:
Ah ah. This Benin people can lie en!
I don't think you guys know what 16,000 kilometers is sha. Measure Nigeria from the north to the south and from the west to the east. It's not even up to your made up number. Morealso, you guys said it's 4 times the wall of China. Ah ahhhh! Fear God now. Is the wall underground or is it spiritual as always? You may want to say "blah blah blah Benin empire almost covered the whole Africa." Fùck that!!!

No matter how ruined the wall has become, even if it has been ruined for 100 years, there will still be paths and evidences of it's existence. Kindly come and show us Biko.
Una too dey lie abeg.

If the so claimed Benin Empire was so great. How come you guys are so little now en?
You guys claimed to once be an empire but you currently only occupy one small state that is a little bit bigger than Ibadan. Where did the empire go? Or were you guys divided like a cake?

You also always claim Yoruba was under your empire before. Let's do the math pls. How come Yoruba has 6 and a half states and you guys can only boast of one?
We ve heard it a million times that you once conquered lagos blah blah blah but what happened? Awwww! Now i know. You guys lost the precious Lagos right? But come to think of it. How?

Lastly. If you guys were that progressive during your Benin Empire Bullshít era. Why are your towns and even your cities still acient? Still stuck to the old ways and stuff.
Don't get fussy about this. Answer the questions or else no assholé should quote me.



Ahhh guy.... U were talking well from D beginning but when U started talking about D Benin Empire U just sounded ignorant. Itsekiri & Yoruba are sons of Edo. They are still many small tribes that were born out of Edo.

It's surprising to U, I know but that's what D Yoruba history says so we just have to go with it.

As for the wall. Edo nor get wall, like D normal wall we all know, Edo has ramparts & moat that's all.

For ur notice, I'm not Edo.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Nobody: 10:11pm On Jul 16, 2017
lepasharon:
Oba gha to kpeee
Isee

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Nedsnow(m): 10:20pm On Jul 16, 2017
KingOvoramwen1:
[[s]quote author=Nedsnow post=58526930]Ah ah. This Benin people can lie en!
I don't think you guys know what 16,000 kilometers is sha. Measure Nigeria from the north to the south and from the west to the east. It's not even up to your made up number. Morealso, you guys said it's 4 times the wall of China. Ah ahhhh! Fear God now. Is the wall underground or is it spiritual as always? You may want to say "blah blah blah Benin empire almost covered the whole Africa." Fùck that!!!

No matter how ruined the wall has become, even if it has been ruined for 100 years, there will still be paths and evidences of it's existence. Kindly come and show us Biko.
Una too dey lie abeg.

If the so claimed Benin Empire was so great. How come you guys are so little now en?
You guys claimed to once be an empire but you currently only occupy one small state that is a little bit bigger than Ibadan. Where did the empire go? Or were you guys divided like a cake?

You also always claim Yoruba was under your empire before. Let's do the math pls. How come Yoruba has 6 and a half states and you guys can only boast of one?
We ve heard it a million times that you once conquered lagos blah blah blah but what happened? Awwww! Now i know. You guys lost the precious Lagos right? But come to think of it. How?

Lastly. If you guys were that progressive during your Benin Empire Bullshít era. Why are your towns and even your cities still acient? Still stuck to the old ways and stuff.
Don't get fussy about this. Answer the questions or else no assholé should quote me. [/s]


WTF did this one even write ? grin grin grin
The Fúck your brain don't seem capable to decode

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by ettybaba(m): 10:23pm On Jul 16, 2017
Seun should ban the OP and the moderator that push this piece of lie to the front page.
For the OP to have the audacity to reply posts calling him out shows he is an unrepentant liar.
A dishonest being.
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Nedsnow(m): 10:26pm On Jul 16, 2017
misano:




Ahhh guy.... U were talking well from D beginning but when U started talking about D Benin Empire U just sounded ignorant. Itsekiri & Yoruba are sons of Edo. They are still many small tribes that were born out of Edo.

It's surprising to U, I know but that's what D Yoruba history says so we just have to go with it.

As for the wall. Edo nor get wall, like D normal wall we all know, Edo has ramparts & moat that's all.

For ur notice, I'm not Edo.
Bro! Sons for where?
I know the history of Yoruba very well and I have never read it in any history that we the Yorubas have anything to do with Benin people except for this issue of Oranmiyan who ruled them and gave them their present King lineage.
I believe Wikipedia is still there as my witness and not reference. I already knew the history of yoruba very well before the internet penetration.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Dsov2016: 10:32pm On Jul 16, 2017
aljharem:
OP I have you time today. Enough of all these lies

1. The picture you displayed is NEVER bini but Sungbo's Eredo which is located in Ijebuland aka Yoruba

http://originalpeople.org/sungbos-eredo-africas-largest-man-structure/

2. Benin KINGDOM NOT AN EMPIRE. Do you know what an empire is ? shocked

3. Benin kingdom wall IS NOT ONE OF THE LARGEST MAN-MADE WALL. STOP THE LIES.

In Nigeria alone we have larger man made structures than benin wall.

- Sungbo Eredo
- The Queen Amina Palace. Just to mention a few

4. The british never fought benin, they simply conqured it. It is on record that only the Igbos and Lagosian fought the british

I don tire sef. I no get energy wer I get before

Anyway keep deceiving yourself


Thunder fire u. Benin was an empire with the capital being the current benin city. It had controlled vast stretches of land up to benin republic and up to cameroon . in the 15th century, it fought to protect its northern borders against the fulanis (bringing this up so u can determine how far into the north its borders were) . around the 12th to 15th century the benin people moved its capital to its fortress city(benin). Unlike the other kings who bear oba, the benin had a system similar to the imperial roman empire with its system of several city states who pay allegiance and loyalty to one king the oba. If not for the useless British colonist, u would have known that during the mid 19th century to the of the punitive expedition the oba had sent his powerful warlords to ekiti to put down insurrection against the benin empire by (ogedengbe of illesha)people of ekiti extraction. It was these warlords Omumu who sacked Efon alaye and married the daughter to his son balogun asa(bor) . it was them who founded ado ekiti,igbara one,ilara,ogburugbura e.t.c . I know this because my great grandfather was the captain of the army and later became the main warlord. Pls stop saying nonsense u do not know before ur utterances awaken what u do not want.
Have u ever being to benin, then u will know how large the walls we're. The signs of how big the Walls were can be seen from the moat which was excavated to build it. He Benin's fought but it was a short battle because of how surprising the attack came. Even with the surprise ask any body vast in history about asoro and they will tell u that though he fell, how many British soldiers he took with him with just bow and arrow and how it made people name a hill after him. Most of the benin u see today is modern construction because a cannon was fired into benin and benin of then was razed down by fire. O HOW I WOSH HISTORY WAS BEING TAUGHT SO OUR PEOPLE WILL NOT WALLOW IN THIS STUPID IGNORANCE. It is on record that the benin most and some existing fragments of the wall is a UNESCO heritage site

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by enomakos(m): 10:34pm On Jul 16, 2017
Nedsnow:

Bro! Sons for where?
I know the history of Yoruba very well and I have never read it in any history that we the Yorubas have anything to do with Benin people except for this issue of Oranmiyan who ruled them and gave them their present King lineage.
I believe Wikipedia is still there as my witness and not reference. I already knew the history of yoruba very well before the internet penetration.
wikipedia? at this age you guys still go to wikipedia for information? you know wikipedia is editable?
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by enomakos(m): 10:46pm On Jul 16, 2017
my ancestors were great warriors and conquerors but they made a great mistake those towns and villages them conquer up to Benin republic them shall have do it the way the Arabs massacred the black that use to own north Africa and force their language and culture on them

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Dsov2016: 10:48pm On Jul 16, 2017
Nedsnow:
Ah ah. This Benin people can lie en!
I don't think you guys know what 16,000 kilometers is sha. Measure Nigeria from the north to the south and from the west to the east. It's not even up to your made up number. Morealso, you guys said it's 4 times the wall of China. Ah ahhhh! Fear God now. Is the wall underground or is it spiritual as always? You may want to say "blah blah blah Benin empire almost covered the whole Africa." Fùck that!!!

No matter how ruined the wall has become, even if it has been ruined for 100 years, there will still be paths and evidences of it's existence. Kindly come and show us Biko.
Una too dey lie abeg.

If the so claimed Benin Empire was so great. How come you guys are so little now en?
You guys claimed to once be an empire but you currently only occupy one small state that is a little bit bigger than Ibadan. Where did the empire go? Or were you guys divided like a cake?

You also always claim Yoruba was under your empire before. Let's do the math pls. How come Yoruba has 6 and a half states and you guys can only boast of one?
We ve heard it a million times that you once conquered lagos blah blah blah but what happened? Awwww! Now i know. You guys lost the precious Lagos right? But come to think of it. How?

Lastly. If you guys were that progressive during your Benin Empire Bullshít era. Why are your towns and even your cities still acient? Still stuck to the old ways and stuff.
Don't get fussy about this. Answer the questions or else no assholé should quote me.



Do not let we benin people bring to u wat made the biafran soldiers run away from those towns and cities u called old with very big blokos. The simple reason is wars. Do you seriously think. Then u will know that several benins were killed during the British invasion.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Nedsnow(m): 10:49pm On Jul 16, 2017
enomakos:
wikipedia? at this age you guys still go to wikipedia for information? you know wikipedia is editable?
Of course I know. But it still holds some facts you know.
And like i said before. I did a lot of Yoruba language subject back in high school. And when I mean a lot, I mean the real deal. Not all this crap they are teaching students this days.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Dsov2016: 10:49pm On Jul 16, 2017
banmee:
The wall of china is the largest man made wall lengthwise. Not the wall of benin.

Pls if you have MB go to wikipedia
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Dsov2016: 10:51pm On Jul 16, 2017
enomakos:
my ancestors were great warriors and conquerors but they made a great mistake those towns and villages them conquer up to Benin republic them shall have do it the way the Arabs massacred the black that use to own north Africa and force their language and culture on them

Yes bro. But what some did was to marry the defeated kings children into their family.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by KingOvoramwen1(m): 10:52pm On Jul 16, 2017
ettybaba:
Seun should ban the OP and the moderator that push this piece of lie to the front page.
For the OP to have the audacity to reply posts calling him out shows he is an unrepentant liar.
A dishonest being.

Oya start Crying.......
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by macof(m): 10:56pm On Jul 16, 2017
tdayof:
Great Wall of China is 8,000km+ and Benin is 16,000km. So it's not 4 times the length of great wall of China.

Moreover, your pictures don't correlate and is there anything like "Benin empire"?
the bini people of this generation are liars.

the bini wall is not 16,000km.

a wall to cover the entire bini city cannot be longer than 1,500km

even If USA was to build a wall bewteen them and mexico, it wouldnt be up to 5,000km. and some mofos are saying a wall of 16,000km covers a small city like Bini

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Dsov2016: 10:56pm On Jul 16, 2017
NwaAmaikpe:
shocked

Wow.

The Binis are creative.
Too bad the great wall is gone....but they've replaced it with Calabashes of sacrifice.

From Upper Sakponba, to Ikpoba Slope,
From Ekiadolor to Isiohor,
From Uselu to Ekenwan
From Aduwawa to Ugbor
From Upper Mission to Agbor Park to Akpakpavwa


Every junction is adorned with these festish sacrifices.



They are the only tribe in Nigeria not to completely let go of tradition.

No matter how born-again, spirit-filled they may be, they totally adhere to their traditions and superstitious beliefs.
They respect the Oba so much that they can't even turn down his request if he asks to shag their wife.

Nor allow me curse u o. If u allow me ur brain go reset.
Tell me u know that Christmas day which we all enjoy was brought to replace yule. Or Halloween wet he enjoy with onyibo was brought to replace samhain.or the day Thursday use to remember Thor or Saturday for Saturn or Friday for frigga or January for janus. Each part of the world has never let their fetisness die, even the oyibo we try to imitate
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by banmee(m): 10:58pm On Jul 16, 2017
Dsov2016:


Pls if you have MB go to wikipedia


Do you know how wikipedia works at all? It's a very subjective site. There are so many other sites that can give you accurate information. Best of all is google. I will educate you; just type in how long is the great wall of china and that of benin. Funny thing is, i don't need to google it because it is general knowledge that the wall of china is the longest man made construct ever. The way the op put it means that the wall of benin is longer than the wall of china. How is that possible? You guys need to educate yourselves more.
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Jaqenhghar: 11:01pm On Jul 16, 2017
banmee:


Read some of the fact about the wall. They are wrong. What the op is saying is that the wall of benin is longer than the wall of china. That is just not possible.
Nigerians will say anything. Im surprised they havent claimed to be the inventors of electricity
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by banmee(m): 11:04pm On Jul 16, 2017
Jaqenhghar:

Nigerians will say anything. Im surprised they havent claimed to be the inventors of electricity

You and your mouth. Lol. grin
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by macof(m): 11:05pm On Jul 16, 2017
Dsov2016:



Thunder fire u. Benin was an empire with the capital being the current benin city. It had controlled vast stretches of land up to benin republic and up to cameroon . in the 15th century, it fought to protect its northern borders against the fulanis (bringing this up so u can determine how far into the north its borders were) . around the 12th to 15th century the benin people moved its capital to its fortress city(benin). Unlike the other kings who bear oba, the benin had a system similar to the imperial roman empire with its system of several city states who pay allegiance and loyalty to one king the oba. If not for the useless British colonist, u would have known that during the mid 19th century to the of the punitive expedition the oba had sent his powerful warlords to ekiti to put down insurrection against the benin empire by (ogedengbe of illesha)people of ekiti extraction. It was these warlords Omumu who sacked Efon alaye and married the daughter to his son balogun asa(bor) . it was them who founded ado ekiti,igbara one,ilara,ogburugbura e.t.c . I know this because my great grandfather was the captain of the army and later became the main warlord. Pls stop saying nonsense u do not know before ur utterances awaken what u do not want.
Have u ever being to benin, then u will know how large the walls we're. The signs of how big the Walls were can be seen from the moat which was excavated to build it. He Benin's fought but it was a short battle because of how surprising the attack came. Even with the surprise ask any body vast in history about asoro and they will tell u that though he fell, how many British soldiers he took with him with just bow and arrow and how it made people name a hill after him. Most of the benin u see today is modern construction because a cannon was fired into benin and benin of then was razed down by fire. O HOW I WOSH HISTORY WAS BEING TAUGHT SO OUR PEOPLE WILL NOT WALLOW IN THIS STUPID IGNORANCE. It is on record that the benin most and some existing fragments of the wall is a UNESCO heritage site


All lies. Bini and shameless lies

Ado-ekiti was founded as one of the original 16 crowned kingdoms in the late 13th century/early 14th century. It's origins go straight to Ife
Bini never controlled Efon -Alaaye.

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Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by Jaqenhghar: 11:06pm On Jul 16, 2017
banmee:



Do you know how wikipedia works at all? It's a very subjective site. There are so many other sites that can give you accurate information. Best of all is google. I will educate you; just type in how long is the great wall of china and that of benin. Funny thing is, i don't need to google it because it is general knowledge that the wall of china is the longest man made construct ever. The way the op put it means that the wall of benin is longer than the wall of china. How is that possible? You guys need to educate yourselves more.
I was reading an article about the great pains the chinese gonthrough to maintain that wall. Thay Benin wall is probably half gone
Re: FACTS About The Great Wall Of Benin by KingOvoramwen1(m): 11:09pm On Jul 16, 2017
[[s]quote author=macof post=58529161]


All lies. Bini and shameless lies

Ado-ekiti was founded as one of the original 16 crowned kingdoms in the late 13th century/early 14th century. It's origins go straight to Ife
Bini never controlled Efon -Alaaye. [/quote][/s]


You always are pathetic every time you type.... I pity you bcus denial would do you no good

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