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