Political Era
The Aksumite Period
c. 1st century CE – c. 940 CE
Draft — not yet source-verified
The era of the Aksumite state in the northern highlands, whose authority rested on long-distance Red Sea trade, sacral kingship, and — from the fourth century — Christianity as a source of royal legitimacy.
Schema-test stub (draft). Lens: the origins of statehood — trade-based power and the fusion of kingship with religious sanction. Full content to follow.
Sources
- Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991).