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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | an important east african center of trade | 11 sets | |
| 2 | an important e. african center of trade | 4 sets | |
| 3 | a kingdom along the red sea today known as ethiopia and eritrea which grew wealthy from trade | 3 sets | |
| 4 | first people to have written language call ge'ez, people called aksumites | 3 sets | |
| 5 | located in ethiopia | 2 sets | |
| 6 | a kingdom located along the red sea (now ethiopia and eritre) which grew wealth from trade. | 2 sets | |
| 7 | an important east african center of trade which was located in modern-day ethiopia. people traced roots to solomon and sheba. | 2 sets | |
| 8 | located south of kush on a rugged plateau near the red sea | 2 sets | |
| 9 | powerful kingdom that conquered kush | 2 sets | |
| 10 | seized areas along the red sea and blue nile in africa | 2 sets | |
| 11 | protected muhammad's family and followers during their rise to power | 2 sets | |
| 12 | region where the rulers became christian and later the nubians converted also, causing the last influences of kush to disappear. | 2 sets | |
| 13 | located in present day ethiopia, an important east african center of trade | 2 sets | |
| 14 | meroe eventually was defeated by this kingdom located 400 miles to the southeast | 2 sets | |
| 15 | kingdom that conquered neighboring kush in about 350 a.d. | 1 set | |
| 16 | eastern african kingdom; conquered kush in 350 | 1 set | |
| 17 | one of the first major empires in africa that occupied ethiopia and eritiria | 1 set | |
| 18 | located south of kush on a rugged plateau on the red sea in what is now eritrea and ethopia, history may have begun as early as 1000 b.c., when arab peoples crossed the red sea into africa where they mingled with kushite herders and passed along their written language ge | 1 set | |
| 19 | african kingdom on the plateaus near the red sea | 1 set | |
| 20 | located in modern day ethiopia | 1 set | |
| 21 | roots back to solomon and queen sheba; back to 1000 b.c.; geez = language; people called aksumites; adulis = capital | 1 set | |
| 22 | eithiopian empire ruled by ezana | 1 set | |
| 23 | an important east african center of trade that adopted chritianity at one time | 1 set | |
| 24 | an important christian trading capital in what is now ethiopia; it flourished due to its location near the red sea and the indian ocean as a important center of trade. | 1 set | |
| 25 | am important east african center of trade | 1 set | |
| 26 | a city in present day ethioia | 1 set | |
| 27 | first empire in africa to convert to christianity | 1 set | |
| 28 | ethiopia; trade btw. red sea/egypt; close to the middle east->islamic influence | 1 set | |
| 29 | africa's first and greatest christian kingdom | 1 set | |
| 30 | located south of kush on a rugged plateau on the red sea, in what is now erirea and ethiopia | 1 set | |
| 31 | this kingdom's red sea port city was adulis. | 1 set | |
| 32 | 300-700 ad close to middle east. | 1 set | |
| 33 | 300-700 ad; known as ethiopia; controlled all of red sea all the way up to egypt | 1 set | |
| 34 | 300-700 ad. present day ethiopia. | 1 set | |
| 35 | where modern day ethiopea is, was originally tribal then became christian | 1 set | |
| 36 | kingdom that straddled the important trade routes that stretched from the red sea into egypt and the interior of africa | 1 set | |
| 37 | an important trading capital from the first to the eighth centuries a.d. in what is now ethiopia; it flourished due to its location near the red sea an the indian ocean. | 1 set | |
| 38 | an african kingdom located on plateaus near the red sea | 1 set | |
| 39 | located at the horn of africa | 1 set | |
| 40 | power kingdom which arose and conquered kush, located on the "horn of africa", became a major trading site | 1 set | |