Development of the Empire of Aksum in the 1st milennium CE (Abrittus)

The internal political structure of the early Empire of Aksum was not laid down in a written document or constitution. It evolved in the course of Aksum`s annexion of the formerly Kushitic / Meroitic kingdoms of Alodia, Makuria, and Nobatia in the 4th and early 5th centuries and remained, with adaptations, valid until the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in 760-2.

/// to be continued: Emperor, regional kings, nomadic chiefs, independence of acephalous communities, bishops, state church and religious freedom, far-reaching liberties without formal participation or democracy under the pax aksumitica, promotion of economic development and professional guilds, mythicisation of the good Christian emperor, polyculturalism and dominance of Christian Aksumite culture with Meroitic influences; Roman intervention and destabilisation of a system based on broad informal support ///