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Title: Axum


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Axum
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Trading Advantage
  • Axums trading advantage over Kush
  • Kingdom opened directly on the sea
  • Being port city gave them an advantage
  • Didnt have to carry goods over land which was
    slower and more dangerous

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Organized Society
  • How Axum well organized society
  • Made coins
  • Raised herds of cattle
  • Produced a variety of crops
  • Architects and engineers built impressive towers

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Decline of Axum
  • Cause of decline
  • Lost trading power to Arabs
  • Reduced kingdoms wealth
  • Leaders led people south into highlands
  • African country that replaces Axum
  • Ethiopia

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King Ezana
  • Axums most powerful ruler
  • Ezana changes course ancient Africas history
  • Converts to Christianity
  • As a result people of Axum also convert to
    Christianity
  • Religion still dominant religion today (2011)
    even when countries around them practice Islam

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Greatest Civilization?
  • Egypt
  • Pyramids still stand
  • Left paper as contribution
  • Tax system
  • Kush
  • Economic contribution
  • Herding and produced variety of crops
  • Axum
  • Minting of coins
  • Christianity
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