Ghana: The Ashanti Empire (TRIH ep 269)
1701 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the history of the Ashanti (Asante) Empire in what they frame as part of their 'World Cup Odyssey' episode on Ghana. They trace Ashanti origins and foundation myths, the role of Osei Tutu and his advisor Okomfo Anokye (creator of the Golden Stool), and the state's political and military consolidation in the 17th–18th centuries.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1701
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)