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Capital of the Aksumite kingdom in the northern Ethiopian highlands, commanding the trade between the Red Sea port of Adulis and the African interior.
14.1, 38.7 · approximate · c. 1st century CE - present
On the world
- A place in: How Belief Travelled · 8 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- state adopted Christianity — Ezana's fourth-century adoption is visible in the coinage rather than only in later narrative, making Aksum the best materially attested early state adoption in this package.
- node on Indian Ocean maritime trade network — Aksum's wealth and its exposure to Christianity both came through Red Sea shipping via Adulis — the religion arrived on the trade route, not ahead of an army.
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