Aksum: The African Empire You Need to Know About
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- čas přidán 28. 04. 2023
- In this video, we explore the fascinating history of the Kingdom of Aksum, one of the most powerful empires in ancient Africa.
From its origins as a small kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands to its peak as a global trading empire, we delve into the unique culture, religion, and achievements of the Aksumites. Join us on this journey as we uncover the remarkable stories of King Kaleb, King Ezana, and Tunka Manin, and discover how their legacies shaped the Aksumite civilization.
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Why Netflix isn't making movies about Aksum. Instead, he makes little credible quasi-documents about ancient Egypt.Great history to be proud of.
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Because the Axumites were Christians and Hollywood hates Christianity.
Why should they?
@@AfricanMaverick it's easy because it's a very interesting and little-known piece of history.
@@maxmankowski9539 nah they will blackwash it just like the Cleopatra doc
The language of Axum was Ge'ez, not Greek. Ge'ez was the administrative and the common tongue spoken by the Axumites.
Well, I read here on Wikipedia greek was the administrative language.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum
@@infographicsafrica they list it as one of the languages but Geez was the official language of Axum Empire just like Ethiopia uses Amharic as an official language but even English is spoken but by few.
Correct. Greek was kind of a noble language really only used when interacting with Byzantium before the Arabs took Egypt. Some religious ceremonies at times too.
@@infographicsafrica NEVER trust Wikipedia. The articles are changed based on bias and bias changes over time. I'm taking college history courses right now and that is the first lesson.
@Mattew, yes! Lesson learned!! No more Wikipedia, all my next videos have much more solid research behind to not make fewer of this type of mistakes.
Such a beautiful history! Thanks for doing the work! ❤
Thank you for watching 🙏🏿
I’m really into African history. Great video!
Thank you for watching!
@@infographicsafrica absolutely! Keep up the great content 💯😎
Do you think disney should've made a nubian princess movie?
I am so glad I just discovered your channel. I will now become a subscriber for sure!
Thank you! Got another empire video coming out tomorrow. If you watch it let me know what you think
@@infographicsafrica Most definitely!
The administration language was geez/Aramaic family, not Greek. The ancient Greek studied/ learned everything in Africa, but they changed and fabricated everything in the 1900, so you must find the very, very old books in order to find the true African history( the very ancient African books looted from all over Africa/Ethiopia, in Vatican all over Europe...). Keep teaching, I am learning, thanks!
I am learning this with you guys! I didn’t know this was a lie from the 1900s. History has been rewritten so many times for our continent. I started this channel to tell our side of the story! Thanks for watching
You're doing great work. It's precisely because these things have been changed and lied about that we need channels like yours.
So glad to know that there are people of Alkebulan descent writing our OWN HISTORY and not depending on the deceptive LIES of others to tell it to us. INSHALLAH
I was just telling my relative the other day that all info from the internet is not necessarily accurate. That's the danger of it. Misinformation and it diminishes one's ability to think for themselves. I find that to be frightening. She's telling me that the Arabs migrated to Egypt. The historian in me almost screamed! I told her NO THEY DIDN'T THEY INVADED AND THAT'S A BIG DAMN DIFFERENCE. Her absolute silence was priceless. She didn't have a clue. But I digress.
Amharic not Aramaic
Very good, thanks you.
When Axum took Hymyar they actually installed one of their own to be the governor. The reason why the legend changed is because the governor rebelled and declared independence. This led to Axumite decline.
This history is really fascinating
@@infographicsafrica agreed. No more Woman King...more Axum!
No they put a Christian himyarite on the throne, named sumyafa ashwa he was overthrown by Abraha the axumite.
Thanks I didn't know about it, now I know about it!
Thanks for watching!
We must remember that Adulis preceeded Aksum. Ruled by Negus Zueskalis Aithiopis who spoke
Ge'ez and was said to have spoken Greek than the Greeks. Trading obsidian, turtle shell, frankensense, fish and was a center of trade and commerce in the 1st century.
Read the Erythrian Peripulus.
Adulis empire is on my list for upcoming videos
@@infographicsafrica ama sa Gunallah onedumi
@@the16blackmeccas68🤣😆 ama Sa Gunallah
This is sooooo fake 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Habeshan people still carry most of the characteristics of these Kings in their DNA. However, the youth are being diluted in so many ways... Thanks for the upload, illustration is top notch!!
Thanks for the feedback 🙏🏿
Diluted .. how so?
We no longer control redsea....its controlled by other forces... that was the beginning fot the empire at the time
@@Nativehandle he can’t he is just rambling… there is only one king every one else were commoners as we are now just working for the elite and rich.
Well done. We need more like this. Comics is a great way to bring this story.
Even if new branches even dark branches are to be added later. Human Nature is Human Nature. And the more we know and are proud of each other the better the world can be.
Thank you! I totally agree, the more we know share and talk about our heritage the better!
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Great lectures👍
THANK YOU 🖐🖐❤
Information interesting linking coinage
Amazing story, it reminds me of the scene in Lawrence of Arabia where they talk about Arabia being united and great again. Thew same could be said of Africa or at least the Northern Coast of Africa at least.
Thank you for watching! Definitely an amazing story
My beloved father was from Axum ❤and he loved Axum ❤
Beautiful place full of history! Glad you liked the video
And this is not tought any way in our African studies. Seriously we need to change our schooling. One love from Uganda 🇺🇬
Glad you enjoyed it brother. More on the way! 🙏🏿
Love the images, AI generated or not. Ot just adds so much to have something to look at, even if its inaccurate.
Thanks for watching ! More on the way, with more accuracy
I wish we had documentaries on Aksum, and Nubia, Kush
Hey Keenan, yes I intend to do videos on Nubia and Kush soon. Definitely not documentaries, but at least adding more perspective into these empires. So stay tuned 🙏🏿 thanks for watching!
Do aksum and ifat next
Why not, will add it to the list. Thx for watching
We still use Geez language in our church. Script is used in present languages Tigringya Tigre amharic. ❤❤
One notable part of history, in the discovery era the Otoman empire allied to the Sudanese to conquer Axum (Etiópia), they wanted to wage war to convert people to islam, asking for help to christians portuguese expeditional force, led by Christopher da Gama suported Etiopia in training firearms and logistics, with a force vastly outnumbered against enemy alliance they still were victorious, nowdays the kings of Ethiopia remembered the Portuguese kings as : " Our dear brothers in Christ" after that battle, Ethiopia even sent elite soldiers as cruzaders to help fight muslim force that threatened his kingdom and other african kingdoms due to Sudanese ambition to rule over other kingdoms and empires throut the justification that was legit to convert them to islamic faith.
So many history to tell! I love Africa
@@infographicsafrica Indeed there are many stories to tell about our Ancestral Continent, our specie comes from there.
what is song at 2:30 thanks?
🫠 lost the original file… so sorry
I enjoy the Axumite Civilization,how it was developed, to it reach it zenith,of a mighty empire.,but Although you did mention great kings ,but you did leave out some famous queen 👑,like Queen 👑 Sheba 👄🐾⛱️😄🥳🌍❤️🎉🎥🏠🎥🎈💙🏠💪💪💪💪
We don't know any woman name Sheba. Queen Saba of Axum
Greek was never our language....its was Ge'ez..which is much older than those languages. The coins had Ge'ez writing, it was called Saba sultan.
My Ethiopian Israelites
Thanks for watching!
@@infographicsafrica I'll continue. Bro
What a sick name
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i live in Ethiopia
Aksum is modern Ethiopia and not ancient Ethiopia . And not connected
Called it ancient Ethiopia because it included the coast on the red see (ie Eritrea and Djibouti)
Wrong jts never close to modern ethiopia it was centered on eritrea and tigray region of ethiopia
Tigrinya/tigre ethnicity of both eritrea and ethiopia which are only 6% of ethiopian population and 85% of eritrea the only semetics ppl of Horn of africa.
That's not really the case. It is certainly that Ethiopia has different borders but they are Aksumites. At one point Aksum controlled the Nile where much of Sudan is now as well. I'm not sure why you are saying this.
another lie. Aksum is ancient Tigray and Eritrea. You feel left out because it doesn't include you. Abyssinia is mainly Ethiopia and came about in recent centuries and didnt last long either
Provide your proof. Mines is easily obtainable
Ezana conquered Mecca too. That should be in here
I could tell u more about axum
This is a good place to share
K so axum wasn't the first ancient civilization as well as state in Ethiopia. Punt and Damat were the two ancient state of Ethiopia and the horn of Africa. There were also pre axumite civilization like yeha,hawlti and a lot. The sources about axum are
1.archeological source
2.inscription and written sources
The two main written documents are
A.The peripus of ertirian sea
B.Christian topography
So the peripus of ertirean sea was written in 50 ad by merchants and states that axum was getten in the middle of 2nd century
And Christian topography was written by Cosmos he was an indicopluster
The kingdom of Axum
From the coast of red sea in the east
To nile valley in west
From north up to eritrea
To south up to shoa
About their coin, they use gold silver for international
Axum was the first African nation to use coin
The coins were decorated in ge'ez and greek inscription and symbol of the king
Before christianity the symbol on a coin had crecent or disc symbol
After christianity there were a cross symbol
About their kings, Ezana was the first king to introduce christianity. He ruled 320-350 ad christianity was introduced around 330 ad by Fremenatos(Abba Selama) and he become the first bishop of Ethiopia
But the first king was called Zos Calus
Axum had a port called Adulis
Thank u there's a lot but sorry i doesn't have that much time
I hope it could help u bye
ezana end kaleb the best king word
axumite empire was bigger than the size of modern portugal france spain and england combined
Interesting 🤔
Igzi habeher
Please, when you talk about the history of countries, do not transmit lies. The Kingdom of Axum is not a distant history, and it is known that the Horn of Africa is a mixture of peoples, and that is why it was called Abyssinia. What is the relationship of the Greek language in the history of Abyssinia? These imaginary images have nothing to do with Abyssinia. For your information, the people of Abyssinia used to speak the ancient Ge'ez language, which has disappeared, and now it is derived from the Ja'ez-Tigre.(tigrayet) language. Amharic and Tigrinya
Ok
that is a lie. Axum was around before Abyssinia was ever created. Axum is not a mixture of the horn since people dont mix unless they share religion or linguistics with one another.
Aksum aligned with Rome, the final colonisers of Kemet to annex Meroëtic Kush where Rome alone had failed. This Destroyed forever Nubio-Kemetic continuity (in north Africa atleast) for the favour of non African foreigners. Don't leave that out next time.
Ok, thanks for watching
@@infographicsafricano no no ancien kush have allied with Roman for defeat ancient egyptian ..
That's also another lie Ethiopia didn't unite with Rome for no war .. against Sudan... lies
Meroe was named Saba after Queen Saba until Persians changed the name 😂 Rome conquered Egypt that is not Axum 's territory. You sound lost.
Indeed, they accepted the Roman religion made it a state religion before Rome. Preston John kingdom is a Roman Trojan Horse in Africa. Beating the other Africans over their heads with the stick of never being colonized. Papal decree
Am from AXUM we don't use Greek language man the language we use is called geez still now that was made before Greek
Where did you get your Ge'ez language? Do you know where or not?
@@H.s.A9 are you dumb? Yemen was a Axum colony. We’ve always had Ge’ez no one in Yemen understands Ge’ez but we do. We had that language well before Queen Saba conquered and renamed the land Yemen.
Brother just ask the time where AXUM and GREEK civilizations where made that alone can tell you the answer from true teachers though and learn about Ethiopian orthodox church then you know the meaning of GEEZ brother thankyou for replying
@@H.s.A9
Oh my god - it is not GREEK! It GEEZ! Please correct .
Yes it’s been clarified in the comments.
@@infographicsafricanoooo you don't just fucking throw that like it's nothing ... redo the video...first learn the ppl your talking about ..like the basic and easiest to find even on a simple Google search is language they speak Semitic with mixed heritage anyways ..a travel to the area .. modern day Eritrea would just help you make content...or watch videos of Eritrean people custom and language
Africa is not monolithic gigantic place bro that surprisingly spoke Greek..comeon now ..your intention to make this video is good but it isn't about the people and exactly about who they are and thier heritage ..
Bytheway the yemens and Ethiopians are kind of mixed with eachother well there needs to be more research done to it ...
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Axum ruled over Yemen which is Tigray and Eritrea who shares a part of history with Yemen but mixing wise not so much because of how far the land is. An average Yemenis or vice versa is not making that travel. Only businessman and noble man or army people
NAJASHI🇪🇷
Thx for watching 🙏🏿
Sorry the AL Nagash is in Tigray.
@@StopTheLiess Kingdom of Aksum, present-day Ethiopia and Eritrea (formerly referred to as Abyssinia.
ok I through you were saying the actual location of the mosque which is in Tigray@@mr.qoumbala529 Abyssinia is not Axum and included territories and ethnic groups that had absolutely nothing to do with Aksum.
correction
Geez 🙄 is the Language Not Greek.
You’re right
Based black men.
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So Blacks did conquer Non Blacks at times it is not often talked about like Aksum ruling over Yemen and other parts of the Arab World and Mali Ruling over the Muslim world and when Nubians ruled Egypt in the 25th dynasty yeah.
Very interesting
Yemen wasn't white then. Persians didnt come until the fall of the kingdom.
Yemen occupied you before Axum in the Kingdom of the Yemeni Damt, which controlled the trade corridor and transferred to you the Ge'ez-Sabaean language, culture, and kingdom.
@@H.s.A9 stop lying theirs no evidence of this. Since when was their any Queens and King from Yemen 🤣 🤣 Yemen means to the right in our language. Queen Saba named them and theirs no real language called Sabean it’s ge’ez. We have no influence of Yemen in Axum. It’s funny how the conquered people love to act they were the conquer 🤣 😂 😂 😂 😂
@@StopTheLiess You are the one who stopped lying and spreading rumors. How old was the Yemeni Kingdom of Sheba? Look at the history. Founding. We are much older than you. The Kingdom of Sheba was founded in 1200 BC, while Aksum is modern. Is it reasonable that blacks have any history or civilization that is mentioned before the foundations of Yemen and Saba? You are ridiculous. You lie a lot. You always live in a false illusion. You are just a slave. You were sold to Europe and to the Okaz markets in Mecca.
No slaves?? Remarkable, since most kings have slaves! Who did the work?
🤷🏾♂️ who else?
It was a kingdom build on trade and warriors, no slave
They had enough people within their kingdom. Mixing people in that is a prone to start war down the line(different religions, culture, history, language etc).
christianity tends to have that effect usually
Greek?? U mean Ge'ez
Yup! That’s what it should have said. Was still getting my research game in order!
This is an entirely different Aksum I'm familiar with.😂
Doing my best 😅
No they speak 3 language geek Saba geez
Did bro just say Aksum spoke Greek...?
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Geez
Sorry to brake this but people depicted in the image on the thumbnail look nothing like the average modern habeshas forget axumites 😐, look up the umayyad fresco named "the six kings of earth" if u want to know what they looked like.
Appreciate the comment. I use midjourney (the image generating AI tool) for the images. In the next video I’ll make sure to keep it as close as I can to the look of the people in the stories! Still getting a hang of it 🙏🏿 thanks for watching !!
@@infographicsafrica makes sense keep up the good work 👍
That’s really nice! I didn’t know these sources! Thanks a lot, will use these sources to create the next images for my upcoming video
Appreciate it. Really 🙏🏿
The Axumites weren't an exclusive Habesha kingdom. Why are you "sorry to break this"? Why do you feel it is necessary?
Abyssinia is what we call Africa 😂 the original name for The continent is Abyssinia and were Abyssinian Muslims originally axumites as a whole 🤲🏿
So Ezana was the first Christian nationalist 😂
😂 that’s one way to put it
crusaing before it was cool , which made an alt history path possible of the european crusaders teaming up with the aksumite christians but given how tense the relationship was between the europeans with the romans it would likely not work but it would be cool
Yes Ethiopia is the first Christian nations in the world since 350AC
Viva tigray
Who said our axum language was greek? Axum language was Ge'ze stil Ge'ze is our language today❤please from this video remove your greek language's part😁
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Ethiopians cannot speak greek lmao and Ethiopians are cushitic/ semitic looking people ...amd had the most connection with arabs
Of course Ethiopian were whites for sure. That really seems real 🤴
@@infographicsafrica white my ass
It is Geez present day used in our church in Eritrea Ethiopia Orthodox Church