How did the six leaders prepare for their meeting with the district commissioners?

When the District Commissioner came back from a expedition and learns about the annihilation of the church, he requests six front-runners of the village, together with Okonkwo, to meet with him in his government office. The six men decided to go to the assembly equipped with their axes.

answer; the period of time known as the middle ages;

i think that it would be tenth of the first