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| What was axum's agriculture like? |
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| plow-based (wheat, barley, millet, and teff |
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| a grain unique to the Axum area |
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| What was Axum's economic system like? |
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| trade from african interior, taxed merchants |
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| What types of things did Axum recieve from trade with the interior of Africa? |
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| animal hides, rhino horn, ivory, obsidian, tortoise shell, slaves |
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| What was the Axum language called? |
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| What was the momunmental architecture in Axum like? |
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| huge stone obelisks, for worship, burial and land marks |
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| When adn how was chrisitanity introduced to Axum? |
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| 4th century, through its connection to the Red Sea and the Roman world |
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| who, in axum, adopted christianity? (ruler0 |
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| How did the adoption of christianity link Axum to Egypt? |
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| religiously to coptic christianity |
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| When did Axum expand its region? |
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| during the fourth through 6th centuries |
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| When did Axum's army reach the gated of Mecca? |
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| soil exhaustioin, erosion, deforestation, Islam altered the trade routes |
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