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Title: Axum
Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Kingdom of Aksum's Capital and One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in Africa
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Scott Clem
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-12-17
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In the year 570 CE, a child by the name of Muhammad is born in the Arabian city of Mecca. Sixty-two years later, he dies, and upon his death, the faith that he founded, Islam ("obedience to the one God"), dominates the western half of the Arabian Peninsula. By the end of the first millennium CE, four centuries after the death of Muhammad, Islam has grown to dominate western Asia, north and east Africa, the Levant, and the Iberian Peninsula.
The Holy Lands are lost to Christianity, and Christian Europe is under siege. Folk tales begin to circulate - their origins obscure, but first noted in historic texts around the 12th century CE - of a lost Christian kingdom in the East, the Kingdom of Prester John. There resides the patriarch of Saint Thomas, who proselytized in the Orient. Later, in the 15th century, under the impetus of the Portuguese King Henry the Navigator, Portuguese missionaries and navigators enter the Indian Ocean from the south and, creeping northward up the east coast of Africa, hear ever more substantial tales of a Christian kingdom lost in the belly of Islam. As they enter upon the coast of Somalia, competing in a growing trade in slaves and gold with Arabs of the peninsula, they become increasingly interested in the source of this legend, in part to fulfil the centuries-long dream of discovering the Kingdom of Prester John, but also in part to secure the alliance of a Christian power against the force of Islam.
Members Reviews:
History of AXUM
This book is the story of a ancient city and state centered in Ethiopia. The history of Axum is interesting since it was in existence at the same time as the Egyptian empire. I would recommend it to those interested in history.
as well as how other ancient civilizations like the Greeks viewed it
This book is fascinating because it discusses this culture's relations with Egypt, as well as how other ancient civilizations like the Greeks viewed it. Anyone interested in ancient history should read this.
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Title: Axum
Subtitle: The History and Legacy of the Kingdom of Aksum's Capital and One of the Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in Africa
Author: Charles River Editors
Narrator: Scott Clem
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-12-17
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: History, World
Publisher's Summary:
In the year 570 CE, a child by the name of Muhammad is born in the Arabian city of Mecca. Sixty-two years later, he dies, and upon his death, the faith that he founded, Islam ("obedience to the one God"), dominates the western half of the Arabian Peninsula. By the end of the first millennium CE, four centuries after the death of Muhammad, Islam has grown to dominate western Asia, north and east Africa, the Levant, and the Iberian Peninsula.
The Holy Lands are lost to Christianity, and Christian Europe is under siege. Folk tales begin to circulate - their origins obscure, but first noted in historic texts around the 12th century CE - of a lost Christian kingdom in the East, the Kingdom of Prester John. There resides the patriarch of Saint Thomas, who proselytized in the Orient. Later, in the 15th century, under the impetus of the Portuguese King Henry the Navigator, Portuguese missionaries and navigators enter the Indian Ocean from the south and, creeping northward up the east coast of Africa, hear ever more substantial tales of a Christian kingdom lost in the belly of Islam. As they enter upon the coast of Somalia, competing in a growing trade in slaves and gold with Arabs of the peninsula, they become increasingly interested in the source of this legend, in part to fulfil the centuries-long dream of discovering the Kingdom of Prester John, but also in part to secure the alliance of a Christian power against the force of Islam.
Members Reviews:
History of AXUM
This book is the story of a ancient city and state centered in Ethiopia. The history of Axum is interesting since it was in existence at the same time as the Egyptian empire. I would recommend it to those interested in history.
as well as how other ancient civilizations like the Greeks viewed it
This book is fascinating because it discusses this culture's relations with Egypt, as well as how other ancient civilizations like the Greeks viewed it. Anyone interested in ancient history should read this.