Maʿīn
Yemen
Also known as: Qarnaw
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Ma'in was an ancient South Arabian kingdom located in what is now northern Yemen. Flourishing in the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, the Minaeans were known as a peaceful trading community with a government that exhibited features of a city-state democracy. Their prosperity, along with that of other Yemeni kingdoms like Saba and Himyar, was largely built on controlling the production and trade of valuable commodities such as frankincense and myrrh. Ma'in eventually fell to the Sabaeans in the late 2nd century BCE.12
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