At its height, the kingdom of Aksum included parts of the present-day African countries of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia, and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. Aksum dominated the Red Sea coast and was thus able to control key trade routes between Africa and the Mediterranean and Asian worlds.
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