HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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African Civilization that was a Christian Kingdom due to its location very near Roman Egypt?
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Axum
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Zimbabwe
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Timbuktu
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Ghana Mali, Songhai
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Aksum had become Christianized in the fourth century C.E. and became the first sub-Saharan African state to embrace the new Semitic religion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Axum became the first state in Africa to adopt Christianity as its official faith and at the time was among only a handful of Christian states in the world. Roman Emperor Constantine embraced the faith in 312 A.D. Other small Christian states were scattered around the eastern Mediterranean region.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aksum (Axum) is perhaps most renowned internationally for its enormous monolithic stelae, erected during the third and fourth centuries A.D. as funerary markers for deceased members of its elite.
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