Knowledge Organiser

The Ancient Kingdom of Benin

This half term, our overall focus is History.

We are learning:

• To know how the Kingdom of Benin developed.
• To know about some important events in Africa’s history.
• To know what the people of Benin believed in.
• To know why Benin’s sculptures surprised the people who discovered them.
• To know how Benin’s past is recorded through a range of sources.
• To know the story of how Eweka came to be the Oba of the Benin Kingdom.
• To know how to examine and evaluate different sources of evidence about Benin and explain what they can teach us about Benin culture.
• To know how and why the Kingdom of Benin became powerful and also how and why the empire came to an end.

Challenge

What do you think this artefact is/represents?