Question

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. (-5[1])Around 1700, this empire’s founder began the “great oath” sworn by confederate amanhenes of Juaben (10[1])and Mampong. A history of this empire’s kings written from the Seychelles by Prempeh (10[1])I (10[2])does (-5[1])not mention (10[1])the priest Okomfo (10[1])Anokye instilling the sacred Sika Dwa (10[1])with sunsum (10[1])after it fell from the sky (10[2])during a war with Denkyira (10[1])(“den-CHEER-uh”). For 10 points, Osei Tutu (10[2])I (-5[1])unified what Akan empire (10[1])with Kumasi’s Golden Stool? ■END■ (10[6])

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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