This empire’s mercantilist “peace party” led parliament after the queen mother deposed a king who planned a Quranic code and skipped Odwira’s adae rituals. This empire’s law against revealing ancestry regulated debt pawns recorded by C. C. Reindorf’s Basel Mission. Ivor Wilks credited a meritocratic revolution to this empire’s first elected king, who reformed its kotoko council after his predecessor was impeached for losing the Battle of Atakpamé. Around 1700, this empire’s founder began the “great oath” sworn by confederate amanhenes of Juaben and Mampong. A history of this empire’s kings written from the Seychelles by Prempeh I does not mention the priest Okomfo Anokye instilling the sacred Sika Dwa with sunsum after it fell from the sky during a war with Denkyira (“den-CHEER-uh”). For 10 points, Osei Tutu I unified what Akan empire with Kumasi’s Golden Stool? ■END■
ANSWER: Asante Empire [or Ashanti Empire, Asante Kingdom, Asante Confederacy, or Asanteman; accept Asantehene; accept Kumasi Kingdom or Kumasihene until “Kumasi” is read] (Clues include the Asantemanhyiamu assembly, the destoolings of Osei Kwame and Kusi Obodom, Asantehemaa Konadu Yaadom, the enslaved awowa class, and Osei Kwadwo’s bureaucratic reforms.)
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