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Asante Kingdom and Kumasi

c. 1701-1901 CE · West Africa

Asante authority linked Akan states through Kumasi, military organization, gold wealth, diplomacy and a political order symbolized by the Golden Stool.

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How the setting appeared

Kumasi contained broad streets, courtyard houses, markets, palace spaces and shrines within a forest farming region.

Agent citation CIT-MET-ASANTE-GOLDCIT-UNESCO-GENERAL-HISTORY-AFRICA Setting and material context · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people lived

Farmers, traders, craftspeople, officeholders, soldiers, royal households and enslaved people occupied ranked matrilineal communities.

Agent citation CIT-MET-ASANTE-GOLDCIT-UNESCO-GENERAL-HISTORY-AFRICA Lifeways and community · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

How people worked

Gold mining and exchange, farming, weaving, brass casting, trade and administration supported the state.

Agent citation CIT-MET-ASANTE-GOLDCIT-UNESCO-GENERAL-HISTORY-AFRICA Work, tools and exchange · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Belief, ritual and worship

The Golden Stool embodied collective Asante sovereignty; local deities, ancestors and later Islam and Christianity shaped varied practice.

Agent citation CIT-MET-ASANTE-GOLDCIT-UNESCO-GENERAL-HISTORY-AFRICA Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Historical geography

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Agent citation CIT-MET-ASANTE-GOLDCIT-UNESCO-GENERAL-HISTORY-AFRICA Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 2 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812

Evidence register

Guides used for this record

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CIT-MET-ASANTE-GOLD

Gold in Asante Courtly Arts

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/gold-in-asante-courtly-arts

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CIT-UNESCO-GENERAL-HISTORY-AFRICA

General History of Africa

https://www.unesco.org/en/general-history-africa

UNESCO

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