Triple

Target class: pre-colonial African empire
Context triple: [Oyo Empire, instanceOf, pre-colonial African empire]

• A. precolonial African polities chosen
  Precolonial African polities were diverse, locally rooted systems of governance—ranging from centralized kingdoms and empires to decentralized chiefdoms and stateless societies—that organized political authority, economic exchange, and social life across the African continent before European colonial rule.
• B. ancient empire
  An ancient empire is a large, centralized civilization from antiquity that exerts political, military, economic, and cultural control over diverse territories and peoples under a single dominant authority.
• C. colonial empire
  A colonial empire is a political and economic system in which a dominant state controls and exploits distant territories and their populations, typically through settlement, resource extraction, and imposed governance.
• D. ancient kingdom
  An ancient kingdom is a historically early, centralized state ruled by a monarch, characterized by hierarchical social structures, distinct cultural traditions, and control over defined territories.
• E. dynastic empire
  A dynastic empire is a vast, centralized state ruled over generations by a single family lineage that legitimizes its authority through hereditary succession and often divine or traditional claims to power.
• F. None of above.