The Aksum Empire

“For far too long, a majority of Africans have been indifferent to misrepresentations about who they are. They have remained ‘objects’ of the ill-informed caricatures of a once glorious heritage disfigured by colonial and postcolonial predators.” Those words were spoken by Chido Nwangwu about slavery. Before slavery, Africa was a very diverse region in the world.
There were many successful kingdoms in Africa. Civilization came into existence when people started to leave Africa. Also, civilization was being defined by including habits, defining everyone else’s on the outside, and traits. To the Romans’ eyes, this type of civilization was very “barbaric”.
Africans were trying to claim that the KMT, Timbuktu, the Great Zimbabwe, etc. were apart of their racial contribution to the world. If it was a direct claim, no one could technically claim it. For example, the accomplishments of a couple Aksumites were claimed by all of the Ethiopians. …show more content…
The Aksum empire was the third largest African empire. During the sixth century, the kingdom started to pursue trade and an empire. They started to export ivory, glass crystals, possibly slaves, brass and copper items. This brought prosperity to the kingdom and empire. The port in the city was the Red Sea (Adulis). When agriculture and animal breeding became more common and started to flourish, the empire started to extend their rule to Nubia. When the Aksum empire started to spread, Christianity did as well. As Christianity grew stronger, the empire started to see its downfall and decline. Also, trade was diminished because of the clashing of the Sassanid and Constantinople empires. They clashed on the Red Sea with trading which caused the Aksum empire to be driven out and forced to move. Muslims were also driving the Aksum empire out because they moved into the port city, which ended Aksum’s trade by