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Africa, Iron and Empire, to 400 CE (1536 words) |
 | By 400 BCE, Carthage had established a trading settlement at Cerne on the west coast of Africa, and by now iron had traveled south to tropical areas across trade routes through small Saharan trading towns such as Akjoujt and Tichitt. |
| Aksum and the Fall of Meroe, to 350 CE Hunters and traders from southern Arabia had crossed the Red Sea and established settlements on the coast near the Ethiopian highlands, and by 500 BCE they had mixed and intermarried with the people who had been there before them. |
| As for the nation of Meroe, between 300 and 350 CE it stopped giving it kings royal burials, and the city of Meroe was abandoned. |
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