Jolof Empireball

Jolof Empireball was a West African pre-colonial countryball. He has a tree in his flag meaning if we plant about 20 million in him, we plant 20 Million Jolof Empires, thus saving the Earth.

History
Djölof Jolof Empireball was born as an 8ball. The empire started in 1350 and was divided into 5 constitutional states who had to pay tributes to the emperor, each with it's own ruler whom were selected by the nobles trough voting, altough that they were all under the emperor's administration. Mali Empireball invaded the empire. Kingdom of Portugalball came in the Senegalese coasts between 1444 and 1510 and described how our political system was advanced, the Portuguese Kingdom started trading and became friends with Jolof Empireball after an initially hostile start, Around the 1480s the ruler who studied in Portugal was kicked out from the country, Portugal who wanted to put a christian ally on the throne decided to send an army under a portuguese commander to put the prince back on the throne of Jolof, a dispute started between the prince and the commander wich resulted with his death.

Despite it's internal feuds the Jolof Empireball was strong, in the 16th century it could field 100,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, the Jolof Empireball took part at the Atlantic slave trade by kidnapping it's own people (only the non-muslim ones particulary animists) selling them as slaves to the french, portuguese and dutch traders in exchange for weapons. After Jolof Empireball's Mali Empireball the Empire took some land from him, but later, in 1513 Futa Toro took the land that was seized from Mali and in 1549 CayorBall broke apart from the Jolof Empire making it become a landlocked country that then broke apart, in the same year CayorBall invaded it's southern neighbour, Kingdom of Baolball. In the 1600s thee post-Jolof states started duelling eachother and had plenty of conflicts, till Franceball took advanced in and colonizied it as French Senegalball.

Friends

 * Kingdom of Portugalball - You're cool but, yeahhhh y'know I don't trust christians at 100% but yo, you're my european homie.
 * Netherlandsball - You got some pretty good trading stuff would trade for again. Thanks for the guns and weaponery.
 * Senegalball - Listen nephew, I don't have much time...I buried my missing history in the-

Neutral

 * Mali Empireball - Mande Brother! We share a lot of history and culture but please give some clay and gold to me would you?

Enemies

 * Franceball - We were trading partners but YOU COLONIZED ME WHEN I WAS STARTING TO LIKE YOU!!!