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Social and cultural organisation of Axum
Title: Social and cultural organisation of Axum
Category: History
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Social and cultural organisation of Axum
Socio-Cultural Organisation of Axum/Aksum
Ethnicity; - In identifying the race and language of the people of Aksum one must look back once again to the origins of this civilisation.
? 8th to 6th millennia BC - development of pastoralism then agriculture in northern Africa and southwestern Asia. The ancient language of these peoples fragmented as the population grew; modern Cushitic and Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia today are a result of this.
? 2nd millennia BC – A Semitic …showed first 75 words of 665 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 665 total…Da’amat’s economy, defence, different trades, belief system, art and so on; “characterised by a strong southern Arabian influence”, there is also evidence of major contact with the kingdom of Kush (influenced by Egypt) and possibly the Greek world.
Stratification of Aksum society (far more complex than that of Da’amat) is clearly documented in archaeological evidence although the majority of the detail surrounds the elite. Three main types of buildings have been distinguished
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