The Empire of Aksum (Axum) 

I can tell immediately, you did a lot of research on this ancient African empire. Axum was such a powerful Kingdom, that gets hardly mentioned at all. It's going to take Independent historians like yourself to bring these type of civilizations to the for front. Thanks.

The Kingdom of Aksum is notable for a number of achievements, such as its own alphabet, the Ge'ez alphabet. Under Emperor Ezana, Aksum adopted Christianity, which gave rise to the present-day Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church. wealthy African civilization thrived for centuries, controlling a large territorial state and access to vast trade routes linking the Roman Empire to the Middle East and India. Proud to be Ethiopian

I'm an eastern orthodox christian. I loved this! And the icons! I didn't know about the empire of aksum. Thank you!

Watching this while living few kilometers away from current day Axum City. Keep it up bro. The Aksumite kingdom is so underrated (i mean it needs more attention)

The part about the coins is fascinating!

People are really stepping up thier history game. As a kid in the 80s, it was exhausting having to explain being Ethiopian to my American friends/classmates/random annoying people on Holloween when my mom insisted I dress as an Ethiopan princess... yes we do celebrate Christmas, but not like you, a little different, a more ancient version, aha...no my grandmother didn't serve yours... we weren't even here, and so on. All that to say I've seen a lot of progress, it's almost like people are looking for accurate history now. Thanks content creator for your efforts.

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Awesome stuff man. Really enjoyed it. Would love to pick your brains some time about these guys as I also have a video planned. Specifically I find the pre-christian stuff fascinating. Cheers!

i have been searching axum since yesterday and today i saw this video. thank you so much! your research and narration is wonderful as always.

Man, you do so much work for these vids, awesome drive man, honestly inspiring, thank you Cy! Strength and honor.

I'm Eritrean :) i'm so sad that very few people know about Aksum

As always, I gave a thumbs up as soon as the video started. Once again, very glad I did. THANKS!

I'm so happy I found your channel. Thanks so much for all your work!

i never knew as a yemeni about my history like this but this is amazing 🇾🇪

I have a test on Aksum next week, thank you for this video! I may research more about this once the test is over...this is interesting stuff.

I loved the video! I didn't know about this empire. Thank you very much Cy!

I learned about Aksum recently so I'm really glad to see this video.

I visited the town of Aksum and you can see the stele and there's a nice little museum with some very old objects in it.

So proud of my ancestors history as a person family who’s from Djibouti 🇩🇯 ❤️

Wasn’t there a pre-Axumite kingdom called Da’amat in Ethiopia/Eritrea?? Not much is know about it though :(

I've actually heard about Aksum before, however it was in a fictional setting. The scifi author Eric Flint did an alternate history series about the Byzantine general Belisarius and the Aksumite empire appears as a regional power and seagoing empire in the books, thanks for the further info.

This rly helped w skl. I am literally suffering w the amount of work I have and its harder bc of online classes😭 thx so much for making this video its helped a lot.

Great to find out new stuff cy and hope you can find time for all the other stuff waiting in line😆😆😆.

Good stuff. Concise and explained very well.

Nice video From Yemen 🇾🇪

This was AMAZING!! Now I am really looking forward to a video about the Yoruba people. Did you know that a single bronze artifact from this culture almost managed to destroy the scientific and racist bias of the europeans during the colonisation era??? This is just amazing

Thx for covering bro

I just visited Axum, its so beautiful and I feel I travel back to time, it still look ancient city

Long Live Orthodoxy ☦️

🎧Music used in the video: 0:00 ??? 1:56 Caravan Trails - Sight of Wonders 3:55 Encountering the Unknown - Zauana 6:04 Rushing Through Addis Ababa - Sight of Wonders 7:18 When Warriors Align - Zauana Damn, I like it. To me it sounds like the best tracks from the last Assassin's Creed games. I was looking for a long time for the genre(s) with similar sound and on Epidemic Sound it's named as ”Adventure“, Qobuz names it as ”World“. I hope I've helped you since you're reading this🙃 By the way, to identify tracks I've used Ultimate Vocal Remover GUI to remove the voice and Shazamed the result. It wasn't able to find the first track. but it's similar to Tambores Africanos - Tambores Ancestrais

this was good!!

I'd really like to see a movie or TV series about the Kingdom of Aksum. It's probably tricky thought since there's not much info on how exactly the buildings looked like, what people dressed, what were their activities etc

"Axum was getting very powerful, so they would like to build a long stick".

The last ruler before the Communist regime was Haile Selassie, who claimed decent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was a strong advocate for one man one vote and in Ethiopia he was the one man with the one vote. The calendar stopped whenever he left the country, which would be hell for a Windows computer. But there weren't any. The U.S. Army had a base there but left when the leftists took over.

Very interesting thank you

This help with my homework :) thank you

Hey Cy! Just shooting through - had to stop in and say, 'hi'! What a nice comment from Hard Truth! Eh?!! You always get the best comments though! Stay well 🍀 friend! Jen 😁👏

Merci beaucoup በጣም አመስግናለሁ::

I just heard about this Aksum Empire from the talk given by Lloyd de Jongh on the Holy Humanist RU-vid channel.

Good Work Cy. I never saw that Map

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

As usual another informative excellent video of a civilization never heard of

Great work! Now the people will finally learn what the "long stick" really was. :)

The only video i have seen using correct maps for the Aksumite kingdom.🙌🏼

Heathens eternally btfo by legendary based black man.

Medieval historian: Now where is Prester John in all this?

Brother very nice video

Great one, but there should have been more info about queen Yoddit /Guddit /

Truly, the most legendary of all based black guys.

Ge’ez is pronounced like guh-uhz. The ‘e’ is a neutral vowel.

Good job 👏 🙏❤👑

Grate. But there is an error on 5:09 where the illustration describes Frumentius and King Ezana. However, that illustration is for St.Yared and King Gabra Maska. There is a story behind the spear on his leg.

New history says they were one of the most powerful empires ever. The wheel is said to come from them as was stringed instruments, mathematics and the beginnings of astronomy. They had reknowned cartographers and the equivalent of today's universities. Their dye makers were master's of vibrant color.

The inscription of Abraha is the best witness to the fact that the Kingdom of Aksum is an extension of the kingdom of Dammat, and its kings are among the Jezzis

Good job 👍👍

Awesome

I believe they controlled the frankincinse trade at one time.

The more I learn about it, the more I realize African history is really cool. It's a shame they didn't teach us more about it when I was in school. It's a shame, however, that traitors to their people's Gods are remembered as "heroes" and "reformers". I would love to know more about the Polytheistic religion of Aksum.

awesome

I knew I would see u agin :) (srry if I spelled agin wrong) :`)

For me as an Eritrean, Axum is a proud feature of our history. However, the acceptance of this religion and the hellenised rulers, where the lingua franca was Greek doesn't present a proud African nation.

🌿🥀 🇪🇷 🙏 🇻🇳 ✔️ The proud history of both ERITREANS & TEGARU and the ENVY of the AMHARAS ✔️🇻🇳 🙏 🇪🇷 🥀🌿

Amazing

0:25 bro looks so jolly with his zebra :3

This is my history. I am proud of aksumite Empire. Sad that 1500 the same people are fighting each other. Greetings from a Eritrean

Ethiopian history is so cool. Merci beaucoup! Vive l'Éthiopie!

Good thanks

Thank u ☺️

Great video man. Shedding the light on some important civilizations that arent that know today. I just have a question of the origins of Aksum. "Aksum was previously thought to have been founded by the Sabaeans, who spoke a language from the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family." So basically the came from southern Yemen whom they invaded later. is it true?

Awesome, as usual. Didn't these folks sculpt churches out of solid bedrock, like they did in the Ellora Caves in India? Could be wrong on this. Poor Yemen - war, war, and more war.

good video

Thank you. But it would be nice if you mentioned about the history of Najashi we call him Nigus Armah. Not only about Nigus Ezana and Nigus Kaleb, but there is a written history of Nigus Armah too but this time in Islamic history too. Even Aisha(the wife of prophet Muhammed) narrated about his history since his childhood. Better to include his history if you make a new video about Ethiopian history next time as he is a part of our history too. I love your videos by the way i watched a lot of your videos

Axum good but more ancient ethiopia like Dm't earlier.

Until today eritrean sons get named after ezana and calab

Great 👍

I am ishan again!! I want to hear video about sub Saharan Africa and civilizations like lydia and other anatolian civilizations plus the Greeks and macedonians.

My ancestors!

Your viewers might be interested in knowing that based on my research, much of the Korean vocabulary is based on Akkadian, Ge'ez, Tigrinya and Hebrew along with some words from Gafat. Even the letters of the Korean alphabetic system created in the mid 15th century by King Sejong are probably derived from early Hebrew along with the Sabean script of Ge'ez, based on my own independent research. The first European to give an account of the Korean language, Joseph Hager, noted how the syllabaries of Korean are the same as those found in "Aksumite" and Amharic; yet this topic has been so understudied. Yet, we know that languages such as Tamil and other Dravidian languages have probably been heavily influenced by Ge'ez; and it is also a fact that several important published papers have shown similarities between Dravidian languages and Korean, although it has traditionally been believed that Korean has primarily been influenced by Turkic and Tungusic languages - yet, I believe that Turkic languages have also been influenced heavily by the same Akkadian, Hebrew, and Ge'ez languages, especially as we know from the Bible that the Messianic Jewish communities mentioned in Revelation (for instance Smyrna, where Polycarp was overseer) were residing in western part of modern day Turkey, which was then called "Asia". Speaking of "Asia", it was the Aksumites who coined the name "Hatsia" which means "rulers/kings", because they sent many of their Judaic royalty to parts of Asia. Apparently, when the leaders of Aksum saw how Rome was oppressing and seeking to eradicate Jewish religion in Palestine, they decided to start empires in Southern India, where the ancestors of the Dravidian people such as Tamil-speakers lived - as well as the kingdom of Goguryo. Yes, this is one of those things that almost no history book will mention, but based on my own research, it is very likely that the founders of Goguryo were from Aksum, especially because "Goguryo" is a very frequently used phrase even today among speakers of Tigrinya, who are the heirs of the Aksumite heritage and the ones whose ancestors spoke Ge'ez. "Goguryo" means "Dig it up" or "Look it up"; and it appears to be meant to promote an ethic and governance system based on examination of the scriptures. The name of kingdom that would come to succeed Goguryo, Balhae, is probably derived from the Ge'ez word meaning "enlightened", which is Berhe. There are also many cultural similarities between Tigrayan and traditional Korean culture, many of which persist to this day. Traditionally, the commoners nearly always wore white clothing. The traditional musical styles, are very similar. The mannerisms, standards of respect, bowing culture, and many customs are very similar. I believe even Dangun, who is said to be the founder of ancient Korea, probably had a Danite mother, since Greek "gune" means "wife". During the Assyrian invasions of the 8th century, many of the Danites, along with members of the tribes of Asher, Naphtali, and Gad migrated to what is now Ethiopia, where they joined the descendants of Moses, Levites and those of the tribe of Judah who had already migrated there. I believe there will eventually be found lots of links with the tribes of Levi and Dan in particular in Korean history upon thorough examination. Another interesting factor is that if one views the official map produced in 1402 called Gangnido, it is rather obvious that Lake Tana is drawn disproportionately large while the rest of the continent of Africa pales in comparison. For me, this confirms my belief that many of those who migrated to Korea had come from the region where they spoke Ge'ez, Hebrew, Tigrinya and Gafat, all of which were spoken in ancient Aksum.

This information was influational

we need a movie about this .

my knowledge of anything ethiopian is shamefully bare but im trying to change that and Aksum is a good start i think. you never hear a word of anything ethiopia in the US especially not states like Aksum

ALSO DO SEVERAL VIDEOS ON ANCIENT ARABIA. THAT WILL BE OF GREAT SERVICE !

Molto interesante, non sapevo molto su quella antica civilta. Grazie tante per bellissimo.video con i reperti archeologici e belle immagini. GRANDE!

Seems a very interesting nation.. it could be present in some civilization game

After aksum defited, they located Lalibela, 12th century.

Axum king dam it the best city and it has for long time history

Than you!

Could you please make videos the history of king bazen he used to be Axumite empire but could find it history. I am looking forward from you thanks

Justinian called upon a legendary based black man called King Kaleb of Axum.

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I wonder why was this never in the computer game: age of empires. It would have been one of the greatest games ever.

How is it that there are over 2000 languages in the continent of Africa I tried learning the history it’s intimidating there were to many different groups and events that it was hard keeping up and not knowing the importance of each kingdom would be difficult they need to ask people in Africa the older generations are only going to be around for so long why wouldn’t they ask important questions like who was known for what not all conquerors were the most important or significant and we focus to much on who the winners were we need to focus on who was completely destroyed or wiped out there memory won’t last forever .

Can u guys mention eritrea for once

BASED BLACK MAN

nice

Can you please reply to my doubt... why dont we have much info about ancient Aksum as we have of ancient Egypt?

Actually from the end of the 3rd century AD the kings of Himyar took control of the whole ancient Yemen as shown by their title that became "King of Saba, Dhu Raydan [land of Himyar], Hadramaout (eastern Yemen), and Yamnat". During the 5th century they even added "and the Arabs of Thaoud [today's Najd] and Tihamah", showing that Himyar controlled even central Arabia and the Red Sea shore. So when Kaleb invaded the land of Himyar he took control of this vast land. There are even some inscriptions in today's Saudi Arabia written by Abraha telling he submitted most tribes of Arabia until Iraq

Viva tigray

Wheof the Axumite empire is now in independentn the Italians invaded Abyssinia(aka Ethiopia) in 1936 they took one of the Axumite obelisks to Rome -in the same way the ancient Romans had taken Egyptian obelisks to the cities of Rome and Constantinople.The Axumite obelisk was erected next to the Termini main railway station in Rome but I believe the Italians have now returned it (in segments) to Ethiopia as a gesture of good will.Not quite sure where the site has ended up now as I think the centre of Axum is now in Eritrea.

Amen