History of Africa Ep. 21: The Aksumite Civil War

The Aksumite invasion of Yemen was a success! The Himyarite king had killed himself, and the entirety of the Himyarite kingdom was under Aksumite control. Now what?
Two Aksumite generals: the prince-general Ariat and the slave-turned-general Abraha, disagreed strongly as to what they should do next. These disagreements, over such different matters as forced conversions, which villages should be raided, and how much power should be given to a puppet king, all eventually escalate into a catastrophic civil war.
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Dope video

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I read a history book in Arabic that describes ariat as a tall handsome brave man and abraha and a short ugly coward. The book said that just as abraha was about to lose one of his soldiers intervened and killed ariat .

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Abraha wasn't a slave, the ethiopian degraded him bc he has Eritrean origin. He was from the Royal family of Mesfinto in Kebessa Hamasien (Agazian).

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Abraha had 70.000 soldiers and Kaleb 30.000 against the yemenis

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Where is your proof?

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Eritrean 🇪🇷 💪🏾