Dʿmt was a kingdom on the northern Ethiopian plateau that existed during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Few inscriptions by or about this kingdom exist, as very little archaeological work has taken place. As a result, it is not known whether D`mt ended as a civilization before Aksum's early stages, evolved into the Aksumite state, or was one of the smaller states united in the Aksumite kingdom possibly around the beginning of our era.^[1] The Ethiopian Highlands are a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia and Eritrea in northeastern Africa. ... The Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from ca. ...

The capital is thought to have been Yeha. It developed irrigation schemes, used plows, grew millet, and made iron tools and weapons. Yeha is a town in the north of Ethiopia, located in the region of Tigray. ... High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara (, ) Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ... For the constellation known as The Plough see Ursa Major. ... Pearl millet in the field Ripe head of proso millet For other uses, see Millet (disambiguation). ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ...

Most modern historians consider this civilization to be indigenous, although Sabaean-influenced due to the latter's hegemony of the Red Sea^[2], while others view D`mt as the result of a mixture of "culturally superior" Sabaeans and indigenous peoples;<sup>[3]</sup> a very small minority even views the kingdom as wholly Sabaean and Ethiopians as the descendents of ancient Sabaean immigrants.<sup>[4]</sup> After the fall of D`mt in the 5th century BC, the plateau came to be dominated by smaller successor kingdoms, until the rise of one of these kingdoms, the Aksumite Kingdom, ancestor of medieval and modern Ethiopia, during the first century BC, which was able to reunite the area.^[5] The Sabaeans were a people who lived in what is today Yemen in the final millennium BCE. They may be the same nation as the biblical Sheba. ... Location of the Red Sea Image:Red Seaimage. ... The Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing from ca. ... (2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century - other centuries) The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD) Events The Roman...

References

1. ^ Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005. pp.185.
2. ^ Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991, pp.57.
3. ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270-1527 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972), pp.5-13.
4. ^ Megalommatis, Mohammed K.P. "[Yemen’s Past and Perspectives are in Africa, not a fictitious 'Arab' world"
5. ^ Pankhurst, Richard K.P. Addis Tribune, "Let's Look Across the Red Sea I", January 17, 2003.

See also

• History of Ethiopia
• History of Eritrea
• Kingdom of Aksum
• Land of Punt