AKSUMITE RELIGION. Civilization first appeared in the Ethiopian highlands in the fifth century before the common era. It was apparently brought by Semitic-speaking immigrants from South Arabia, who transplanted to Ethiopia many of the cultural and...

Ancient kingdom, northern Ethiopia. At its apogee (3rd–6th century &AD;), Aksum merchants traded as far as Alexandria and beyond the Nile River. The modern town of Aksum (pop., 1994: 27,148), once the kingdom's capital, is a religious centre best...

The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire, Ge'ez አክሱም), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from the proto-Aksumite period ca. 4th century BC to achieve prominence by the 1st century AD. It is also the alleged resting...

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvii + 478 pp. $18.95. IN AN EDITORIAL LAST SUMMER in the New York Times, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri characterize what the protesters of the W.T.O, the G-8, the World...

Mark Graham, Special to the News Denver Rocky Mountain News 12-29-2006 Empire * Fiction. By Orson Scott Card. Tor, $24.95. Grade: B+ Plot in a nutshell: Ender's Game, the book that made Card's name, was about a war in which children are...