awsome5 Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 hey i been reading on this Aksumite Empire.. i guess it was a powerful empire... that rivaled Rome, maybe you guyus know something about them.... just wondering did Rome ever go to war with the Aksumite Empire??? were they allies???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Paulinus Maximus Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 From what i can gather the Askumites were a major trading ally of the Roman Empire, they were heavily involved with the trading routes between India and the mediterranean and to my knowledge never went to war with the Romans. Rome never ventured that far into Africa on a military scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosmo Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 I posted some (long) time ago about an alliance between Justinian and Axum for a campaign against Yemen http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=5991&st=0&p=56682&hl=axum&fromsearch=1entry56682 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artimi Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Because of this post, I started a search for information on the Aksumite Empire. This is what I like about this site. Pebble size ideas grow into boulder size knowlege. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvadius Posted January 10, 2011 Report Share Posted January 10, 2011 Just to confuse things slightly I am currently reading Michael Pitassi's The Navies of Rome in which on page 279 he makes a 'throwaway' comment that in AD 266 the Ethiopians closed the Red Sea to Roman trade. Because he doesn't reference this particular statement I don't know if he means Ethiopia as a separate entity to the Askanite Kingdom, who apparently did control Northern Ethiopa around this period, or if he has accidently conflated the two. BTW GPM's comment about Rome not venturing that far into Africa is only partially correct as Pitassi states earlier in his book that Rome was previously able to make use of a canal (originally cut by the Egyptians) between the Nile and the Red Sea to send naval fleets into the Red Sea. These fleets were apparently sent on a couple of occasions to take punative action against pirates interferring with Rome's then thriving long distance marine trade with India, the Middle East and Africa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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