JAMB - History (2008 - No. 12)
The main cause of the decline of the Benin Kingdom in the 19th century was the
absence of a strong and effective army
bitter struggle for the throne by the ruling families
strained relations between Benin and Agbor
British abolition of the trans- Atlantic slave trade.
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Civil strife broke out among rival claimants to the Benin throne thus weakening her central authority