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Aksum and Nubia : warfare, commerce, and political fictions in ancient Northeast Africa /
Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, littl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World : New York University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these two regions. Hatke argues that ancient Northeast Africa cannot be treated as a unified area politically, economically, or culturally. Rather, Nubia and Ethiopia developed within very different regional spheres of interaction, as a result of which t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814762783 0814762786 9780814762837 0814762832 9780814760666 081476066X |