Aksum An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity
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Aksum An African Civilization of Late Antiquity
1. Introduction
This book is designed to introduce the ancient African civilization of Aksum to a wider
readership than has been catered for by specialist publications currently available. The
Ethiopian kingdom centred on Aksum in the northern province of Tigray during the first
six or seven hundred years of our era, is still very little known in general terms. Its
history and civilization has been largely ignored, or at most accorded only brief mention,
in the majority of recent books purporting to deal at large with ancient African
civilizations, or with the world of late antiquity. Perhaps, considering the paucity of
published material, authors of such syntheses can hardly be blamed for omitting it; those
who do include it generally merely repeat the same vague outlines of Aksumite history as
are found in much older works.
Stuart Munro-Hay
The Aksumite state bordered one of the ancient world's great arteries of commerce the
Red Sea, and through its port of Adulis Aksum participated actively in contemporary
events. Its links with other countries, whether through military campaigns, trading enterprise,
or cultural and ideological exchange, made Aksum part and parcel of the enterprise, or
international community of the time, peripheral perhaps from the Romano-centric point of-view,
but directly involved with the nations of the southern and eastern spheres, both
within the Roman empire and beyond. Aksum's position in the international trade and
diplomatic activity which connected the Roman provinces around the Mediterranean via
the Red Sea with South Arabia, Persia, India, Sri Lanka, and even China, tied it too
firmly into the network of commerce to be simply ignored.
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1. Introduction
This book is designed to introduce the ancient African civilization of Aksum to a wider
readership than has been catered for by specialist publications currently available. The
Ethiopian kingdom centred on Aksum in the northern province of Tigray during the first
six or seven hundred years of our era, is still very little known in general terms. Its
history and civilization has been largely ignored, or at most accorded only brief mention,
in the majority of recent books purporting to deal at large with ancient African
civilizations, or with the world of late antiquity. Perhaps, considering the paucity of
published material, authors of such syntheses can hardly be blamed for omitting it; those
who do include it generally merely repeat the same vague outlines of Aksumite history as
are found in much older works.
Stuart Munro-Hay
The Aksumite state bordered one of the ancient world's great arteries of commerce the
Red Sea, and through its port of Adulis Aksum participated actively in contemporary
events. Its links with other countries, whether through military campaigns, trading enterprise,
or cultural and ideological exchange, made Aksum part and parcel of the enterprise, or
international community of the time, peripheral perhaps from the Romano-centric point of-view,
but directly involved with the nations of the southern and eastern spheres, both
within the Roman empire and beyond. Aksum's position in the international trade and
diplomatic activity which connected the Roman provinces around the Mediterranean via
the Red Sea with South Arabia, Persia, India, Sri Lanka, and even China, tied it too
firmly into the network of commerce to be simply ignored.
www.dskmariam.org/artsandlitreature/litreature/pdf/aksum.pdf
Pls klik to read more^
also connected is this thread.
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