The city of Aksum evolved from a ceremonial centre in the first century AD, with over 10,000 inhabitants, into the commercial and administrative centre of the Aksumite Kingdom. The kingdom was at its ...

Subsequently, Aksum could not maintain its political and social-economic system. Extensive land use that was necessary for the required high level of food production for the kingdom’s large population ...

The first kingdom for which there is documentary evidence on the continent is that of Aksum, which probably emerged ... 5,000 years ago and reached its peak in the 16th century BC.