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Aksumite trade — the debate over how state-formation worked

The Aksumite Empire — centred at the highland city of Aksum in present-day Tigray, flourishing from roughly the first to seventh centuries CE — has been the subject …

2 min read · Horn of Africa, Aksum · 27 views