Geographic Location

Empire & Map

How they made Money Aksum was involved in the trade network between India and the Mediterranean , exporting ivory, tortoise shell, gold and emeralds, and importing silk and spices. Axum's access to both the Red Sea and the Upper Nile enabled its strong navy to profit in trade between various African (Nubia), Arabian (Yemen), and Indian states.

Religion The Aksumites practiced a polytheistic religion. Astar was the main god of the pre-Christian Aksumites ; his son, Mahrem , was to whom the kings of Aksum traced their lineage. Around 324 A.D. the King Ezana II was converted by his slave-teacher Frumentius , the founder of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.Frumentius taught the emperor while he was young, and at some point staged the conversion of the empire.

Role of Women Well, we don't know much about Ethiopia , but African

women are the ones who do the farming. In most pre-industrial societies women did the cloth production, spinning and weaving. Pottery is often produced by women in agricultural societies also. They would do all the usual things associated with women, caring for the children, preparing food, fetching water, looking after the sick.

Place they took overThe Axum’s took over the Nile, and the Kingdom of Nubia.

“Axum Houses”Axum houses where located on the Hillside in Axum, Ethiopia. There house structure was made of drab breeze-block ,and there roof’s were made with corrugated iron .

(The corrugated iron roof)

(The drab breeze-block)

GovernmentThere form of government was an Monarchy. First it was Zoskales, who has been listed as the King of Ethiopia for 13 years. Then it was Dil Na'od, He was the last ruler of Axum before the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia.